Timeline for What is the name of the profession that makes mattresses?
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| Oct 6, 2018 at 15:11 | comment | added | Lambie | It depends on what you mean by old. Early ones were made of straw, feathers, wool, etc. But before mattress making became a thing, I would imagine that bed makers provided the mattresses such as they were. | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 14:26 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | There are dedicated words in other languages (Italian materassaio, French matelassier,...) - but not in English, I think. And if we didn't like mattress-maker (which appears as such in the UK 1931 "Census of Occupations"), we'd presumably have borrowed one of those foreign terms anyway. | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 14:21 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 14:11 | history | asked | Mindwin Remember Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |