Charles H Beckley Horsehair Mattress

by Lilian on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

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This is how hand-stitched mattresses are made at the Charles H. Beckley Inc, a mattress company which operates in New York City and whose years of operation spans as early as the 1900’s, during the year of the Great Depression.

The company is a family business. They make about five mattresses a day.

More details from The New York Times.

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