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Ticks being filled with straw by Japanese-American internees at the Poston War Relocation Center in 1942
A tick mattress, bed tick or tick is a large bag made of strong, stiff, tightly-woven material[1] (ticking). This is then filled to make a mattress, with material such as straw, chaff, horsehair, coarse wool or down feathers,[2]: 674–5 vol1 and less commonly, leaves, grass, reeds, bracken, or seaweed.[3] The whole stuffed mattress may also, more loosely, be called a tick. The tick mattress may then be sewn through to hold the filling in place, or the unsecured filling could be shaken and smoothed as the beds were aired each morning.[4] A straw-filled bed tick is called a paillasse, palliasse, or pallet, and these terms may also be used for bed ticks with other fillings. A tick filled with flock (loose, unspun fibers, traditionally of cotton or wool) is called a flockbed. A feather-filled tick is called a featherbed, and a down-filled one a downbed; these can also be used above the sleeper, as a duvet.[4][5]
A tick mattress (or a pile of such tick mattresses, softest topmost, and the sheets, bedcovers, and pillows), was what Europeans traditionally called a "bed". The bedframe, when present, supported the bed, but was not considered part of it.[2]: 674–5 vol1
^John Wilson Browne (1884), Hardware: how to buy it for foreign markets, p. 235
^ abDictionnaire de l'ameublement et de la décoration depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à nos jours, Havard, Henry, 1838-1921
^"Straw mattresses, chaff beds, palliasses, ticks stuffed with leaves". www.oldandinteresting.com. 9 January 2008.
^Vredeman de Vries, Hans (September 28, 1998). "Great Bed of Ware". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. V&A Explore The Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum.
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