History of the Pillow

cushion is a soft bag of some ornamental material, stuffed with wool, hair, feathers, polyester staple fiber, non-woven material, or even paper torn into fragments. It can be used for sitting or kneeling upon, or to soften the hardness or angularity of a chair or sofa. Pillows and rugs can be used temporarily outside, to soften the hard ground. They can be placed on sunloungers and used to prevent interference from moist grass and biting insects. Some dialects of English that uses this word to refer to the pillow as well.

cushion is a very ancient article of furniture, inventory the contents of palaces and mansions in the early Middle Ages constantly made mention of them. Pillow then often large size, covered with leather, and strong enough to serve as a seat, but the steady trend of furniture all have grown smaller with time.

Pillow was, indeed, used as seats in all the events in France and Spain in the past and in many cases extremely, and Saint-Simon's time 'we find that the court in Spain they are still considered as a substitute for the special honorable seat. In France, the right to kneel on cushions in the church behind the king guarded and tightly regulated, as we learn again from Saint-Simon. Type of bearing is called Carreau, or square. As rough and hard chairs, cushions may have been a necessity, they are now one of the small luxuries of life.

Formerly the wealthy Greeks and their feet rested her head on the cushion and support that met embroidery. Ancient Egyptians regard the head as the lives of those places, so they are willing to spend more money for a fancy pillows. Chinese society considers a soft pillow can be lowered vitality, because it cushions China was originally made of wood, leather, and ceramics. Some cushion in China was once filled with drugs obta herbs to cure diseases, to change gray hair so black, and beautiful dreams.

At first cushion made ornate and opulent embroidery, pillow is a work of art. Pillows have a valuable trade commodity in China and Persia, and is only used by the wealthy Chinese population. Pillow then get to medieval Europe and rapidly adopted in the UK. But the pillow sata only used by women giving birth or a weak man. Entered the industrial revolution in terms of business start ogled pillow. Ornate pillows were entered mass production in factories.

In the development of the pillow used by all people and spread to Europe, China and even Indonesia. European society like a pillow of feathers, the chinese think pillows are soft and tender can damage the vitality of the body so choose materials from wood / leather / porcelain, while the Indonesian people use kapok fiber to fill pillow.

According to the progress of technology in addition to natural materials pillows made of synthetic fibers instead of natural fibers because of limited natural resources and to improve the quality of comfort. Here is an example of a pillow that is now prevalent in the market:

1. Dacron (polyester fiber)

There are many types of dacron and the best part is siliconized polyester fiber that silicone polyester fibers. This has a Dacron fiber with a high flower power so light weight but looks fluffy (fat) so tender and soft when used. But we must be careful with low-quality dacron fiber is easily broken and dust fragments can be dangerous for people with allergies.

2. Latex (natural rubber)

Basic properties of latex is very elastic. To be a pillow, a foam rubber developed. Usually this type of cushion made to contour the head and the advantage is durable.

3. Super foam (foam super)

Is a good quality synthetic foam. Advantage of this type of pillow is dampen spring like effect caused by latex. This pillow will not immediately come back after being given the load, so it would make more comfortable to wear

4. Goose feather (down)

This pillow is now a lot of us find in the market, although originally made by goose feather pillow European society because of its superiority is warm during cold weather and cool in the heat to make this happen because it can withstand temperatures down is absorbed, in addition to the cushion material has level of tenderness that is quite good (depending on the quality and composition).

I am a person who is very concerned about the quality sleep goose down pillows choose. This pillow is very comfortable indeed proven to support the head while it is relatively expensive. However, not commonly used in Indonesia (maybe), I was a bit confused with the treatment. So far as I care to do is leave them in the sun a week or 2 weeks to avoid moisture and distinctive smell