Home, sweet home!

If you've ever shopped for bed-linen or table cloths while travelling outside of Australia, you may have been met by a confused look from the shop assistant when you asked for the “Manchester Department”. Manchester is a word that is used commonly throughout Australia to describe bedding, sheets, towels, pillowslips, table linen and similar items, yet this is not the case elsewhere.

 

In fact, the use of the word Manchester is one that is unique to Australia and the reasons why quite curious. During the 18th and 19th centuries, settlers in Australia were unable to grow cotton crops successfully, while plantations and cotton mills had yet to be developed. This meant Australians needed to import bedding and other cotton goods from overseas.

 

Back in Great Britain, the Industrial Revolution was ... Read More

Have you ever imagined what the beds and bedding we sleep on in the future might be like? We have...and here are some of the suggestions we'd like to see being developed by bedding manufacturers!

 

Beautifying Bedding

 

Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to go to sleep and wake up looking like you've just spent a week in a pricey health spa? We are not quite sure how this one would work but we'd love to see a set of sheets and pillow cases which moisturised and toned the skin while you rested. The designers could even come up with an option which would allow you to wake up with a flawless natural sun-tan!

 

The Self Cleaning Bed

 

If you do your own laundry and bed-making, you'll appreciate what a great time-saver a self cleaning bed would be. Scientific research into nano technology makes this id...

Read More