Custom Natural Latex Couch/Bed
After designing and building her house just right, this customer added one of the last custom touches: a natural latex couch whose cushions can be arranged into a perfectly sized Full size mattress with pillow. She chose 4″ of Firm Natural Latex, wrapped in wool batting. The pillow is the small back piece in the pictures […]
Very, very comfy
Finally got the bed out. It’s very very comfy!! – Seattle, WA
I love looking forward to going to bed
I cannot express how pleased I am with the bedding, topper and pillow. It has been delightful. My goal was to alleviate the aches and pains of getting up in the morning and this has been accomplished! This has also been the case for my husband and occurred nearly immediately upon setting up the bed. […]
Wool Topper, with Zipper
Wool is lofty and soft. It can be an heirloom fiber when it is kept lofty and recarded every few years. To provide access to the wool in the future without have to tear open a seam and sew it shut again, the customer requested a zipper put in. The topper is hand tufted. You could make one […]
Lovely
The cushions just arrived and are lovely. And the excess fabric was also in the package. They are also comfortable. Thank you for the great service. – E.L. (This customer ordered cushions made with her fabric and our shredded natural latex. You can see a picture of them in our Customer Picture section here.)
How to Make a Pillow
How to Cut Natural Latex
Perhaps you happened upon a piece of latex in our Clearance section that is just about the right size for your projects or maybe you have an old couch made of latex that you are ready to part with but you realize there is still life left in the foam, so you get creative. Your […]
Chair Cushions with Shredded Latex
Using this vintage yellow fabric the customer picked out, we sewed six chair cushions. They are stuffed with shredded natural latex and hand tufted to keep the fill from flopping and falling to one side of the cushion like shredded latex is prone to do. In case the fill was want to be adjusted, a zipper was […]
Organic Hemp Dog Bed
Using shredded natural latex and kapok fiber, this Etsy customer makes custom dog beds. Like our pillows, she creates a liner with the fill and uses a strong hemp canvas fabric for the outer, washable case. The kapok softens the shredded latex and absorbs some of its bounce while still being flexible and comfortable. You […]
Triple Channel Pillow
Walking past our table at the New Hope Farmers Market, Peggy noticed the variety of pillows and thought of her own pillow troubles. She had been on the hunt for years for a pillow that was supportive under her neck and softer under her head. After discussing for quite a while what she might like, […]
Is Wool Alive?
When this herding dog saw a felted wool ball for the first time, he circled it, eying it, sniffing it, crawling up to it to nuzzle it and then backing away. He recognized the wool, but the wool did not move as a sheep does. After a while, he realized the wool was not alive, stopped […]
Foraging for your Bedding: Corn Husks
One of many things summer means is corn – fresh, hot, buttery corn. But as I was reading of basic mattress and pillow fills that our ancestors used to use, I realized there could be more to the corn plant than just its kernels. What about the husks? My guess is that tree leaves also […]
Perfect Cut
The latex foam piece is perfect. Well cut. It fit right into a pillow case. I’m using it to sit at my computer and also while playing guitar. (:-) – R.P. (This customer ordered a 16″ x 16″ piece of natural latex with a 4″ square cut out of the center .)
Business Expanding & Moving
BIG NEWS! 2 showrooms in 2 states We’re moving. Local is becoming West Lafayette, IN. Due to my husband’s job change, West Lafayette, home of Purdue University will become this business’s home as well.. All online orders will be processed out of there as well as shipping of most custom orders and swaps of all […]
Stock Sale – 10% Off
Friday, August 15 – Tuesday, August 19 – All items in stock are 10% off. Midnight to midnight. This list includes all of the following items: Almost all pillow parts, kits and fills – Use coupon code “stock10%” at checkout for 10% off. Shredded Natural Latex Pillow Kit Wool Pillow Kit Kapok Pillow Kit Kapok by the lb. […]
Dual Pocket Hull Pillow
If you can layer a mattress with different firmnesses, how about layering your pillow? Then you can choose what combination of fills you like yet keeping them separate so that you can flip it and sleep on the same pillow but with a different feel. A customer asked for a pillow case with a divider down […]
15″ Latex on top of Steel Screening
Here are the pics of the process of putting the bed together. I used welded wire hardware cloth to lay over the Bedder Bed Frame to keep the foam from pressing thru the openings in the bed frame over time. The steel bed frame maker said this would not happen, but I did not trust […]
A Perfect Example
My assistant tells me that the fabric arrived on Saturday (I was away from the studio for the weekend). I’ve just unwrapped it and it looks wonderful! Thank you again for taking such good care of packaging it and for being so accommodating! I will enjoy working with the fabric. I look forward to ordering […]
Heron and Ephie
Two Twin size mattresses made with our components: Heron’s (circa July 2014) is a 6″ Combo of Medium Latex over a Firm Latex in Quilted Ticking with a Wool Puddle Pad. Ephie’s (circa July 2012) is 6″ Firm Natural Latex wrapped in one batt of wool encased in our Twill Cotton Ticking. Ephie was […]
Does your foam have fire retardants in it?
Duke University is inviting you to submit a marble size sample of your couch or mattress foam. They will test 50 samples a month to see if they contain fire retardants. To participate in their study, click here. Click around the top menu bar to see the study more. To see their findings so far, click here.
Foraging your Own Bedding – Shimul or Bombax Silk
Another foraging opportunity… if you live in China or India or Cuba or really, the Tropics. This tree has silk fibers much like the kapok tree and is commonly used to make mattresses in Asia. This plant has a very long bloom period. It opens first bloom in fall, lights up the sky throughout winter […]
Firefighter Cancer Study on Flame Retardants
A study that came out last year, linked cancer to flame retardants in firefighters. It was a thorough and one of kind study. To quote, “Our study provides clear evidence that firefighters are exposed to high levels of cancer-causing chemicals including brominated flame retardants and their combustion by-products – dioxins and furans – that are formed […]
Farmers Markets – New Hope and Golden Valley
If you stop by the New Hope Farmers Market any Saturday (8-1) or the Golden Valley Farmers Market Sundays (8-12) this summer, make sure to stop by and say hi. We’ll be selling our Pillow Kits and Dryer Balls and wool craft kits and hanging out all morning, every weekend. Why we’re at a farmers […]
20lb. Kapok Dog Bed
Thanks for coming to our Pillow Making Event on Sunday! Fluffing kapok is always more enjoyable with others’ company and I was very happy to finish fluffing the last few pounds I needed for a dog bed my neighbor requested I make. My neighbor Barbara wanted to treat her grandson’s helper dog, Sonic, so a […]
Pleased
In light of the personalized customer service you’ve provided me, I wanted to let you know that I received the shipment this Monday past and am pleased with the quality of the products. Many thanks to you and your staff. – M.T.
We love our mattress!
My boyfriend and I were sleeping on an air mattress a year ago and decided we wanted a nontoxic mattress. We plunged into the confusing world of researching mattresses online and created a spreadsheet listing 15 companies and all the pros and cons of each. When we eventually found DIY Natural Bedding they came out […]
DIY Pillow Making Event
Join us to shred some natural latex or fluff some kapok to fill your pillow. We will provide the pillow cases, the unfluffed kapok and the latex falloff. You choose your pillow sizes and which fill you would like. Also, bring a favorite practice of yours to share, some trick or solution that you use […]
Product shipped to Peru made our sleeping better….
We are from Minnesota but are living in Peru for a couple of years. We sleep on latex in the States, but of course moving our family down here with 8 suitcases didn’t leave room or weight to bring our beds. We used firm innerspring beds (about all that you can get here) and I […]
Wool Topper
Wanted to share with you what I made from your organic cotton twill! It is filled with 90%/10% alpaca/Romney wool batts, about 5 pounds of it, and is about 3 inches thick. I will be coming back to you for more fabric when the need arises (which may be soon if my hubby grows jealous […]
Foraging for your Bedding: Cattails
A couple weeks ago, when the wind was sharp, the temperature was single digits and the ice was frozen, a daughter and I made a trip to a nearby lake. It is a double lake, bottlenecked in the middle with a bridge spanning that narrow opening and between the two sides of the lake, a path […]
Free Shipping Changing
While we really like to offer good deals to you and we keep our prices low so that we can make your purchases more affordable, we have realized we cannot offer free shipping on all purchases anymore. In a few weeks, flat rate shipping will be added to every item. We will still share a bit […]