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From the history of bedding
Today we have a huge selection of bed linens of different colors, manufacturers, sewn from different materials: poplin, sateen, percale and so on. Do you know the history of the origin of bed linen? Can you imagine your life without this seemingly simple, but at the same time great achievement of mankind?

Our most distant ancestors slept in the branches of trees. Only there could one feel safe and protected from predators. Then ancient man moved into caves, and soon learned to build secure dwellings for himself. And the very first bedding in history was an animal hide.

About 73,000 years ago, people began to make two-, three-meter-thick bedding, which consisted of layers of pressed grass, sedge stalks and reeds about a centimeter thick. And were covered with broad leaves of plants, which with their odor repelled insects. In the IV century BC in ancient beds were already laid mattresses with hare's wool.

The primacy of bed creation belongs to the Sumerian civilization,