Sleeping or rather the quality of sleep is increasingly important in our busy and hi-tech lives. The average human will spend 26 years of a 75-year lifespan asleep - that's about a third of a life. So it's no wonder that beds and bedding are big business. Over the years, beds, or rather mattresses, have been made of an assortment of fillings - including straw, duck and goose feathers and rags from old clothes. A feather mattress was once considered so valuable you'd hand it down to the next generation. Heal's of London, one of the original commercial bed makers, sold its feather mattresses by the pound and type of feathers used within it.
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