The most luxurious mattress must have qualities that equals a price that contains of 6 digits
Synthetic fibers, latex and memory foams tend to cause sweating and deteriorate over time. The average adult sweats the equivalent of a glass of water each night into their mattress .
A synthetic mattress with either latex or memory foam absorbs this (sweat) like a sponge.So much so that the average double mattress weighs around 55kg when new and will weigh 90kg after 5 years.
Let me put that into prospective. These mattresses almost double in weight, there is a solution .. The Horsetail Hair Mattress.
Horse hair is open celled and hollow, this means that if you were to soak it in water then give it a shake,it would dry instantly. Unlike synthetic materials or memory foam, Horse Hair doesn’t absorb any moisture at all.
The moisture and warm air are actually vented away from the mattress. The natural fibers help to regulate bod temperature all year round, which means we also sweat far less while sleeping.
Horse Hair is the ultimate natural material in a mattress,but getting this material ready for use within your mattress requires care and attention.
Getting The Raw Material (The Horsetail Hair)
Nature has an incredible way of providing us with the natural fibers, that help us keep warm when it cold and and cool when it is hot. Ensuring that these fibers are responsibly sourced is of the utmost importance.
Preparing The Horsehair Tail
The starting point for creating a Horsehair Mattress is processing the raw material into a rope , as the hair comes in loose and add to your info that .. the longer and thicker the fibers are, the better the quality you get.
This is because the more twists you can get into the product that means when we untwist it ,the more curls we have in the layers of horse hair. What we are trying to do is create as much spring in a mattress as possible
People talk about pocket spring count a lot. Pocket springs are of course hugely important, but the way we process horsehair in a natural fiber, that acts as millions of individual springs across that mattress.
To do this , we need to take the raw, loose material and form it into a Horsehair rope. Before twisting the material into rope, the horsehair is long and flat ,and if we put that straight into a mattress ,it is not going to create any resilience or any of the spring that we are looking for. So we have to put that spring into the fiber and we do that by spinning it into a rope.
First , the horsehair is manually fed into the hopper, the fibers then start to feed through the rollers and at this point they are worked and weighted. The hopper evenly feeds the fibers through to the rollers where they begin to open up the fibers. As the rope begins to form , the weight and tension helps it become very tight. We then begin spinning the rope.
The more twists and curls that we can put into the rope means that when we open it back up, the more spring we will get in the horsehair and ultimately the mattress. After 10 to 15 minutes of spinning , we get a horsehair rope that weights about 25kg .
But we are not finished yet, there is a heat treatment process , as we need to give the rope a memory to make those curls and springs permanent. To do this we heat the rope which changes the form of the horsehair that means it retains its spring, once we open it back up.
Now the horse hair ready to fill your luxury mattress
- Savoir mattresses range in price from $12,850 (beds that take 30+ hours to make) to $87,350 (120+ hours).
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- Then there’s the horse hair. Savoir uses the longest hair available—and the longer the hair, the more curls, and the more curls, the more bounce. Horsehair is not naturally curly; it’s steam-cleaned, twisted into a rope and held that way for at least three months to get the proper texture.
- every single mattress is made to order, and signed by the person who made it.
