Saturday, January 28, 2012

the mattress factory

The year was 1929.  Manning  Atwood passed away in June and Mama and the family tried to keep the mattress factory going.

Maggie (Mama) Atwood sewed the ticks for all the mattresses on her treadle machine.  Then the ticks were stuffed with cotton by a machine of some kind.  Last the edges were hand rolled with a mattress needle and tufted with hanks of cotton spaced so the fill would not shift.




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