Sacking bottom Beds?

[City Bound]

This is another old form of bed making like a rope bed but instead of all rope there is a piece of canvas that is webbed on to a bed frame.

Anyone have any experience with this? Ever lay on one?

[Danaus29]

Not real comfortable for 2 people, unless you like sleeping close. For one person, if you like a softer bed they are okay.

[whodunit]

I have a 4 poster cherry cannonball bed but I don't have the canvas for it.

When I slept on it somebody had cut springs to kinda fit on it and then I used a mattress from a hide-a-bed which fit perfectly.

Mrs Whodunit

[City Bound]

thanks.

[sandsuncritters]

As a child I slept on old military camp cots that were made similarly. Every morning the cots were de-roped and broken down for transport, then re-assembled at night. This also kept the ropes from eventually loosening and sagging.

At the old house, we still have the old roped beds that use a tightener inline to keep the ropes tight. They are comfy to sleep on, but movement is slightly restricted.

Are you using a mattress on top of the canvas?

That's a nice bed in your picture

In His Love

[jennigrey]

Hmmm - how do you keep the rope from pulling through the edge of the canvas/sacking? Are there grommets? Or just a stoutly-sewn hem? Perhaps a rope rolled and sewn into the hem?

[City Bound]

Originally Posted by jennigrey

Hmmm - how do you keep the rope from pulling through the edge of the canvas/sacking? Are there grommets? Or just a stoutly-sewn hem? Perhaps a rope rolled and sewn into the hem?

There are metal eyes that the rope snakes through.

[City Bound]

Originally Posted by sandsuncritters

As a child I slept on old military camp cots that were made similarly. Every morning the cots were de-roped and broken down for transport, then re-assembled at night. This also kept the ropes from eventually loosening and sagging.

At the old house, we still have the old roped beds that use a tightener inline to keep the ropes tight. They are comfy to sleep on, but movement is slightly restricted.

Are you using a mattress on top of the canvas?

That's a nice bed in your picture

In His Love

I do not have one o these beds. I am exploring options or bedding that will free me from the system. If I can, I would like to never buy another matress from a matress seller again.

[jennigrey]

Originally Posted by City Bound

I do not have one o these beds. I am exploring options or bedding that will free me from the system. If I can, I would like to never buy another matress from a matress seller again.

They are about as bad as car salesmen, aren't they. Also, new matresses outgas. I'd love to buy one that is less-toxic but they are expensive. Our current matress is 20+ years old and finally starting to get saggy in spots. Not looking forward to having to buy another. Maybe I should have bought one five years ago and put it in storage to do its nasty outgassing BEFORE we use it.

[emdeengee]

The canvas stretches under your weight so you have to constantly tighten the ropes. It got so annoying that we added an extra lip and wood sheeting to the frame and just set a standard mattress on top. We like a firm bed and the canvas was not it.