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Tudor Bedrooms
Beds, for those who could afford them were one of the more advanced pieces of Tudor furniture. Four poster beds became popular and had elaborately carved headboards and posts. The tester, valance and heavy curtains were embroidered and a coverlet embellished with fine needlework covered the bed itself. Although the feather mattress had been introduced in the fifteenth century, few could afford such a luxury.
The poorer households may have slept on pallets filled with straw, or on rough matting, covered with a sheet and a coverlet and a log or a “sack of chaff” to rest their head on.
Servant would sleep on straw with no cover sheet or coverlet. The Tudors believed that the hardened skin of the lower ranks of society could cope with such discomfort! By Elizabeth’s reign, servants did enjoy a little more comfort.
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