[ 2010 ] Need advice about horse hair mattress (not a joke!)

[ricoba]

Check this out - Stearns and Foster has one!

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/109828/a-mattress-at-$33000?mod=family-home

I saw that article and thought of this thread. Kind of interesting to see that some people can spend up to $30,000 + on a hand made mattress....which includes horse hair!

 

[Jennie]

Jennie,

I didn't realize that you were looking to sell your existing ones; I thought you just wanted to buy another one! Why were you going to replace it in the first place? Just because someone told you that mattresses need to be replaced every so often?

Initially we used the two horse hair mattresses as a king sized bed. Then we reconfigured the master bedroom to make room for more closet space and purchased a new queen sized bed. That's what needs to be replaced.

One horse hair mattresses and box spring was then placed in a spare bedroom/den. The other was put in the attic. Neither were used much over the years.

When I was recently in a high end carpet and furniture store browsing for a new queen size bed, I jokingly mentioned about our old horse hair mattresses, and the salesman surprisingly knew all about this type of mattress. He is a history buff and he told me how royalty of many countries valued them and passed them down as family heirlooms.

 

[nicklinneh]

I don't have a horsehair mattress, but I do have a horsehair cushion for a chaise-longue. When I had it recovered, the upholsterer was quite astounded. -ken

 

[lucyf]

mom threw out the horsehair mattresses!

My father had two beautiful horsehair mattresses as a boy - extra long for young men - about a foot thick - so comfortable! Nothing NOTHING compares. When dad died mom threw them out. She felt they were "icky" never having tried them out.

I am so sad! Nowadays I believe you'd have to pay around $100k for one and I don't have that kind of money. Am thinking I'll get a horse and patiently save up his tail hairs to build my own mattress in a couple hundred years.

 

[Jennie]

Look at this

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/holy-horse-hair-175-000-royal-mattress-1C8929347

 

[Patri]

How and why did this thread get resurrected? Did someone come onto TUG and search 'horsehair'? Weird.

 

[DeniseM]

How and why did this thread get resurrected? Did someone come onto TUG and search 'horsehair'? Weird.

They probably googled it and found the TUG thread - see post #29 from a guest.