[Re: PE - Bedding types]

[Wendy Freeman/Otte]

I made a straw tick for my rope bed - very comfortable.  It is a bit lumpy,
but you can adjust the lumps with a few well-aimed punchs, which allows you to
adjust your mattress to coddle new bruises from the day.

I put a bit of sweet woodruff & lavendar in the tick, to discourage wild
bedbugs/fleas/etc.  They are both medieval bug repellants, used in
mattresses.

My tick is simply an oversized pillowcase, made of heavy, twill-woven cotton
(denim-like material), with buttonholes at the open end, for it to be laced
shut.  It's both warm (in cold weather) and cool (in warm weather) to sleep
on.

Well worth trying.

--Lady Wyllow of the Loch

SuZaimware at aol.com wrote:
> wrt sleeping on ropes....i agree that padding you would use on the ground 
> should work on the ropes...i did sleep one night (a warm one!) just on the 
> sheepskins (one layer); it was comfortable enough to go to sleep but i could

> feel the rope crossover points; i suspect that i would have been fine with 
> one more layer of sheepskins or possibly a featherbed, but the closed-cell 
> foam, though not period, has been most comfortable...I am planning on a
straw 
> mattress on the ropes next year to see how that works; since the bed is up 
> off the floor shouldn't have a problem with wetness....
> 
> btw, i had the height of the bed made so that the 20 gallon mundane plastic

> tubs i use to haul/store "stuff" would fit under the bed; makes it much
nicer 
> in the tent to have those out of the way!
> 
> Enjoy!
> Maryz the Somewhat Scattered
>
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