All About Futon Mattresses
Having a quality futon frame is an important component to futons but so are futon mattresses. Purchasing a lower end futon mattress may cause you to feel the frame through it. Getting a futon mattress that isn’t geared to the feel you’re used to can make it uncomfortable for daily use.
Broadway Furniture Has A Great Selection Of Futons In Portland
Futon Origins
Futons actually first started out in Asia and are basically a mat no more than 3-4 inches thick that is simply laid on the floor. Textile fabric or batting would be placed inside a fabric shell and this is what would be referred to as a futon mattress. It wasn’t until an American had the idea to take the futon and place it on a frame. Early futon mattresses used in the industry consisted entirely of cotton batting with a twill or fabric covering.
Cotton Batting
Machine tufts or dimples as they appear in your mattress are done throughout to keep the contents of the mattress in place. These cotton batting filled futon mattresses had the advantage of being very soft and would conform to the user and most early futon frames would use these types of mattress. The only disadvantages of these mattresses were that they were very heavy to move around and over time the batting would compress down from use.
Many of these mattresses are still being made and used today and have a following by consumers who really wanted a soft sleeping and sitting surface. Many mom & pop futon shops that make their own mattresses still offer these today for the futon mattress customer looking for something ultra soft in the way of futon mattress.
With the need and desire to make the cotton batting last longer, manufacturers began adding in other materials to help increase the lifespan of the mattress. Polyester and wool have been two popular fabrics used to blend with the cotton batting to change the properties of the cotton.
This was a good first step into creating a futon mattress that would last longer and did much to advance futon mattress construction. The industry however wanted to create a lighter weight futon mattress and one that would have a little more longevity than straight cotton batting or blends could offer and started experimenting with adding foam into the futon mattress.
Foam Mattresses
Foam was introduced to the futon mattress in the form of straight or convoluted (egg crate) types. These foam cores would be added to the middle of the futon mattress and the purpose of the foam was to help increase the lifespan of the futon mattress and to make it lighter so that not as much weight would be put on the frame during operation.
The other interesting quality of the higher density foams is that they helped firm up the mattress and the more of this foam used in the futon mattress the firmer it would be. Many manufacturers found this to be a great addition to futon mattress lines and soon futon mattresses were being introduced with edge guards made up of high density foam and even 3-4 layers of various density foam layers to provide a unique feel to the mattress.
This went on for many years but something was missing that was preventing many consumers from making a futon purchase and the industry would soon figure this out and address this issue in the way of a new mattress offering.
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source:http://www.futons.org/futon_mattresses.html
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