Custom Pillow Glossary

Bench Cushion Source Glossary:
Internally, a pillow comprises a filler made from foam, synthetic fills, feathers, or down. Traditionally straw was a filler, but this is uncomfortable and rarely used today. Feathers and down were the choice of the rich; these offered the advantage of softness and their ability to conform to shapes desired by the user, more so than foam or fiber pillows. However, the pointed tips of down feathers can poke through the pillow cover, poking the sleeper and causing discomfort, and so today even they have become less common than foam-based pillows.

There are currently hypoallergenic varieties of down pillows to allow people sensitive to down to enjoy the comfort of feather or down pillows. In Asia, buckwheat is a common filler, as are plastic imitations. Such pillows tend to be smaller than a standard pillow. The fill is surrounded with a cover or shell made of cloth or silk, known as the pillow case or pillow slip. House pillows (also called cushions) often include a zipper in this cover so that the fill can be removed and the covering laundered. Bed pillows do not have this feature, and instead a pillow case goes over the pillow, that can be washed. Even with regular washing, pillows tend to accumulate large amounts of dust and vast numbers of microbes among the fill and it is recommended that they be replaced every few years, especially for those with allergies. The classic bed pillow shape is a square or golden rectangle with four corners reminiscent of the shape of the ears of a cat. Each corner of a pillow is referred to as a nib. When a pillow is placed on a flat surface the "poof point" is the crest of the pillow roundness.

Types

A pillow is designed to provide support and comfort to the body. There are three main types of pillows; Bed pillows, Orthopedic pillows and Decorative pillows, with some overlapping of use between these. Bed Bed pillows are usually rectangular in shape. Throw pillows are generally covered with a removable pillow case, which facilitate laundering, keeping the bedding fresh. When considered as a subset of Bed Pillow, Euro pillows finish 26x26 and older style Travel Pillows commonly finished 12x16.

Body pillows are as long as a full adult body, providing support to the head and neck at the top and to the knees and legs lower down. This type of pillow can be especially useful in providing support for those who sleep on their sides and for pregnant women.

Orthopedic Neck pillows support the neck by providing a deep area for the head to rest and a supportive area to keep the neck in alignment with the spine while sleeping. These can also be known as cervical pillows.

Travel pillows provide support for the neck and head in a sitting position. Their "U" shape fits around the back of the neck and keeps the head from slipping into an uncomfortable and possibly harmful position during sleep. However, U-shaped pillows often force the head forwards creating neck stiffness.

Donut pillows are firm pillows shaped like a torus, with a space in the middle to alleviate pressure on the tailbone area while sitting. These pillows are used primarily by individuals who have suffered an injury to the tailbone area or who suffer pain from hemorrhoids or another ailment of the colon.

Lumbar pillows are designed to support the inward curve of the lower back, filling the space created between the lower back and the back of the chair when in a sitting position. These pillows are generally used to support the lower back while driving or sitting, such as in an office chair.

Decorative Pillows serve a dual purpose. They likely have fancy cover material which serves to decorate the room where they are found. Since Decorative Textiles are commonly 54 inches in width, many decorative pillows finish about 17x17 inches. (54/3 = 18 less seam allowance) When used to decorate a fully made up bed, decorative pillows are likely thrown aside at bedtime, since they are not covered with a launderable pillow case, thus, while found on the bed, they are primarily there for decoration, hence they fall under this category. Decorative pillows are also found on furnishings in more public parts of the home, such as sofas, chairs and window seats. Here, their common use may overlap both orthopedic and bed pillows. For example, unless a person has some particular medical condition, they will likely use a handy decorative pillow for lumbar support, as needed, while seated on a sofa. Likewise, for the occasional nap, decorative pillows are handy for supporting the head or neck, even though they are not covered with a pillow case, as are bed pillows.

There are five common synonyms for decorative pillows which are descriptive of their use in the home. "Accent" Pillows emphasize or accent some other part of the home decor. The terms Sofa Pillow and Couch Pillow refer to the place these decorative pillows are likely found. The terms Toss pillow and Throw pillow refer to the way they generally arrive in their places.

Novelty Pillows are shaped like humorous objects (a banana, tweety bird, a human leg), and are meant to brighten up and add humor to a room or lounge area. " Novelty pillows make the best accessories for any piece of furniture including a sofa" Said Daragh and Clara from Vancouver Decor Magazine.

Floor Pillows are another subset of decorative pillows. These pillows often finish 26x26 inches (one half of the width of the textile, less seam allowance) Miscellaneous Styles Dakimakura is a hugging pillow originating in Japan. Abrasador is a long hugging pillow originating from the Philippines.

A husband pillow (also known as a bedrest or a boyfriend pillow) is a a large, high-backed pillow with two "arms". It is used to prop the user upright while in bed or on the floor, as for reading or watching television. Other uses Pillows may also provide additional aids to relaxation, such as a heating pad or aromatherapy. Pillows are also used to accomplish simulated pregnancy. Using a pillow under the knees while sleeping on the back can relieve low back pain by helping to reduce the curve of the lower back. Using a pillow between the knees while sleeping on the side can prevent the upper leg from pulling downward and creating a twist in the spine. Using a relatively flat pillow under the stomach while sleeping on the stomach can help keep the spine in alignment and alleviate stress on the low back. In this position, it is best to place the head directly on the mattress to avoid arching the spine.

Firestop pillows are used to seal openings in walls and floors required to have a fire-resistance rating.See also Bolster:

A bolster (etymology: Middle English, derived from Old English, and before that the Germanic word bulgstraz) is a long narrow pillow or cushion filled with cotton, down, or fibre. In western countries, it is usually placed at the head of bed and functions as head or back support. In southeast Asian countries, in particular Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, the bolster is designed to be hugged when sleeping. It is called a dakimakura in Japanese. Tradition suggests that a wife would fashion the bolster out of bamboo and give it to her husband when he travelled away from home so that he would not be lonely. It was called a "bamboo wife," "Dutch wife," or chikufujin in Japanese. In many Chinese and Malay families, children are provided with a bolster and the habit of sleeping with a bolster carries over into adulthood. It is said that hugging a bolster will calm one's mind when sleeping, and, in the hot tropical climate of Singapore and Malaysia, it is often too hot to cover oneself with a blanket when sleeping, especially in a non-air-conditioned room. In the past, it was common for people to make their own bolsters Often sheet sets come with pillow and bolster cases. In more traditional Chinese families, a newlywed couple's wedding chamber will have a bed that comes with two pillows and one bolster. The bolster is to provide the husband with something to hug when the wife is not in the mood. The use of the bolster is so common among Indonesian people that most local hotels provide bolsters for their guests. However, this is less common in westernized hotels in Indonesia. The equivalent of bolster in the western countries is the body pillow.

Body pillow: A body pillow is a large cushion support for the head, usually used while sleeping in a bed, or for the body as used on a couch or chair. There are also throw pillows (also called toss pillows), which are pillows that are purely decorative and not designed for support or comfort. There also exist "novelty pillows", (which can be throw or body pillows), which are designed often as licensed products. Such pillows include the popular "Fish Pillow" - a large body pillow that is made to look like a trout. Ralli quilt pillows are famous pillows which are used in Pakistan and India. They are colorful embroidered and quilted by the women artisans.

Cushion: A cushion (from Old French coisson, coussin; from Latin culcita, a quilt), is a soft bag of some ornamental material, stuffed with wool, hair, feathers, polyester staple fiber, non-woven material, or even paper torn into fragments. It may be used for sitting or kneeling upon, or to soften the hardness or angularity of a chair or couch. Cushions and rugs can be used temporarily outside, to soften a hard ground. They can be placed on sun loungers and used to prevent annoyances from moist grass and biting insects. The cushion is a very ancient article of furniture; the inventories of the contents of palaces and great houses in the early Middle Ages constantly made mention of them. Cushions were then often of great size, covered with leather, and firm enough to serve as a seat, but the steady tendency of all furniture has been to grow smaller with time. Cushions: often found in piles. Cushions were, indeed, used as seats at all events in France and Spain at a very much later period, and in Saint-Simon's time we find that in the Spanish court they were still regarded as a peculiarly honorable substitute for a chair. In France, the right to kneel upon a cushion in church behind the king was jealously guarded and strictly regulated, as we learn again from Saint-Simon. This type of cushion was called a carreau, or square. When seats were rude and hard, cushions may have been a necessity; they are now one of the minor luxuries of life. The term cushion is given in architecture to the sides of the Ionic capital. It is also applied to an early and simple form of the Romanesque capitals of Germany and England, which consist of cubical masses, square at the top and rounded off at the four corners, so as to reduce the lower diameter to a circle of the same size as the shaft.

Mattress: A mattress is a mat or pad, usually placed atop a bed, upon which to sleep or lie. The word mattress is derived from Arabic words meaning "to throw" and "place where something is thrown" or "mat, cushion." During the Crusades, Europeans adopted the Arabic method of sleeping on cushions thrown on the floor, and the word materas eventually descended into Middle English through the Romance languages. Though a mattress may be placed directly on the floor, it is usually placed atop a platform (such as a bed or a metal spring foundation) to be further from the ground. Historically, mattresses have been filled with a variety of natural materials, including straw and feathers. Modern mattresses usually contain either an innerspring core or materials such as latex, viscoelastic, or other polyurethane-type foams. Mattresses may also be filled with air or water. Orthopedic pillow An orthopedic pillow is a pillow designed to correct body positioning in bed or while lying in any other surface. Its design obeys to orthopedic guidelines to ensure the right placement and support of one specific part of the body or more to provide safe and healthy rest to the sleeper. It has been traditionally made of foam and fiber, but over a decade ago a new kind of orthopedic pillow appeared: The memory foam pillow, an orthopedic pillow made of memory foam, a heat sensitive material that can acquire the shape of the body lying upon and recover immediately its original shape when the body gets off. Orthopedic pillows are regarded as therapeutic pillows due to the fact they can help - depending on their design - relieve different conditions as sleep apnea, snoring, insomnia, breathing difficulty, blood circulation problems, acid reflux, GERD, lower back pain, sciatica pain, neck pain, whiplash, rotator cuff injury, among others. This way, the sleeper can get longer and deeper sleep without the discomfort produced by the symptoms of these conditions. Nowadays there are many types of orthopedic pillows for almost every part of the human body, as well as orthopedic beds, mattresses, top mattresses, supports and cushions for different orthopedic problems. Some of them have multipurpose and multi-position designs for different physical ailments and sleep disorders.

Pillow fight: A pillow fight is a common game mostly played by young children (but can also occur with teens and adults) in which they attack each other with pillows. Many times pillow fights occur during children's sleepovers. Since pillows are soft, injuries rarely occur. The heft of a pillow can still knock a young person off balance, especially on a soft surface such as a bed, which is a common venue. A useful technique in a pillow fight is to bundle the nibs. In earlier eras pillows would often break, shedding feathers throughout a room. Modern pillows tend to be stronger and are often filled with a solid block of artificial filling, so breakage occurs far less frequently. On the evening of January 16, 1964, the photographer Harry Benson snapped a well-known picture of The Beatles having a pillow fight in their hotel room at the Hotel George V in Paris. Benson claims that the pillow fight was occasioned by "a cable announcing that 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' was number one on the American pop charts.

Throw pillow A throw pillow, or toss pillow, is a small, decorative type of pillow. Throw pillows are usually placed on sofas or armchairs but are also frequently used on beds and day beds. Throw pillows serve both an aesthetic and a functional purpose. Decorative pillows are commonly used to tie in color accents within a room, often drawing on the colors in drapes, walls or area rugs. From a functional perspective, throw pillows provide back, neck and head support. Throw pillows come in various sizes and shapes. The most common size throw pillow is 16 to 18 inch square. However, rectangular, circular and cylindrical throw pillows, called bolsters, are also popular. Outside the United States, throw pillows are more commonly referred to as cushions. Throw pillow and decorative cushions are made from a wide range of textiles including silk, leather, microfiber or faux suede, cotton, linen and hemp. In recent years, decorative pillows have been revived as an artistic medium. Fashion designers have become increasingly attracted to the lucrative home textiles or furnishings market and this has led to a wide range of more embellished looks and styles. Company logos and photos are placed on pillows as well to give a personalized look.

Sunbrella Fabric: Gorgeous, long-lasting and easy to clean solution-dyed acrylic fabric made by Glen Raven Mills. From the ocean to the mountains, and all points in between, Sunbrella lets you bring out your inner sense of style out. Our tough, long-lasting fabrics handle the worst Mother Nature can give, year after year. From the baking sun to endless rain, furniture featuring Sunbrella fabric looks great in any season, and is backed by the best limited warranty in the business. The durability that makes Sunbrella ideal for the great outdoors will give you peace of mind on indoor furniture as well. Best of all, Sunbrella is now available in the rich colors, luscious textures, exquisite patterns and soft hand that you love on your indoor furniture. Indoors or out, Sunbrella has you covered. At Sunbrella, you don't just pick out a furniture fabric - you choose a lifestyle, which is why we've designed a remarkable fabric to support you and your family for years to come.

Double-Cording Cushions: Are used for cushions with boxed or welted style edges. Like the single corded cushions, where a thin strip of fabric if sewn around a heavy gage string or cord and sewn into the seam of the cushions. With double cording, or ‘boxed double cording’ as it is also commonly referred to, the cording is send into both the top and bottom seams of the sidewall fabric panel of the cushions along wit the top and bottom fabric panels. The thickness of the cushions typically dictates how far apart the cording on the sidewalls will be.

Boxed-Edge Cushions: The construction of these cushions have a vertical sidewall that is the same height as the thickness of the cushion. These cushions are made by assembling the top and bottom section of the cut fabric to the sidewall fabric to form a box. This style of cushion is also commonly referred to as ‘welting’. A five inch thick cushion would have a five inch thick sidewall sewn together with the top and bottom sections of the cushion fabric.

Knife-Edge Cushions: Knife edge cushions are cushions that are made by sewing together the top and bottom fabric panels to make a more traditional sewing seam. These type cushions do not have a sidewall like the boxed edged or welted cushions. This style of cushions is most common for smaller thicknesses like one or two inch. Some even prefer using knife edge cushions for as much as three inches, however the finished look on thicker cushions with knife edges style begins to take on the appearance of a pointed or arrow head tip on the side of thicker cushions made with knife edge styling.

 

Bench Cushion Source Glossary:
Internally, a pillow comprises a filler made from foam, synthetic fills, feathers, or down. Traditionally straw was a filler, but this is uncomfortable and rarely used today. Feathers and down were the choice of the rich; these offered the advantage of softness and their ability to conform to shapes desired by the user, more so than foam or fiber pillows. However, the pointed tips of down feathers can poke through the pillow cover, poking the sleeper and causing discomfort, and so today even they have become less common than foam-based pillows.

There are currently hypoallergenic varieties of down pillows to allow people sensitive to down to enjoy the comfort of feather or down pillows. In Asia, buckwheat is a common filler, as are plastic imitations. Such pillows tend to be smaller than a standard pillow. The fill is surrounded with a cover or shell made of cloth or silk, known as the pillow case or pillow slip. House pillows (also called cushions) often include a zipper in this cover so that the fill can be removed and the covering laundered. Bed pillows do not have this feature, and instead a pillow case goes over the pillow, that can be washed. Even with regular washing, pillows tend to accumulate large amounts of dust and vast numbers of microbes among the fill and it is recommended that they be replaced every few years, especially for those with allergies. The classic bed pillow shape is a square or golden rectangle with four corners reminiscent of the shape of the ears of a cat. Each corner of a pillow is referred to as a nib. When a pillow is placed on a flat surface the "poof point" is the crest of the pillow roundness.

Types

A pillow is designed to provide support and comfort to the body. There are three main types of pillows; Bed pillows, Orthopedic pillows and Decorative pillows, with some overlapping of use between these. Bed Bed pillows are usually rectangular in shape. Throw pillows are generally covered with a removable pillow case, which facilitate laundering, keeping the bedding fresh. When considered as a subset of Bed Pillow, Euro pillows finish 26x26 and older style Travel Pillows commonly finished 12x16.

Body pillows are as long as a full adult body, providing support to the head and neck at the top and to the knees and legs lower down. This type of pillow can be especially useful in providing support for those who sleep on their sides and for pregnant women.

Orthopedic Neck pillows support the neck by providing a deep area for the head to rest and a supportive area to keep the neck in alignment with the spine while sleeping. These can also be known as cervical pillows.

Travel pillows provide support for the neck and head in a sitting position. Their "U" shape fits around the back of the neck and keeps the head from slipping into an uncomfortable and possibly harmful position during sleep. However, U-shaped pillows often force the head forwards creating neck stiffness.

Donut pillows are firm pillows shaped like a torus, with a space in the middle to alleviate pressure on the tailbone area while sitting. These pillows are used primarily by individuals who have suffered an injury to the tailbone area or who suffer pain from hemorrhoids or another ailment of the colon.

Lumbar pillows are designed to support the inward curve of the lower back, filling the space created between the lower back and the back of the chair when in a sitting position. These pillows are generally used to support the lower back while driving or sitting, such as in an office chair.

Decorative Pillows serve a dual purpose. They likely have fancy cover material which serves to decorate the room where they are found. Since Decorative Textiles are commonly 54 inches in width, many decorative pillows finish about 17x17 inches. (54/3 = 18 less seam allowance) When used to decorate a fully made up bed, decorative pillows are likely thrown aside at bedtime, since they are not covered with a launderable pillow case, thus, while found on the bed, they are primarily there for decoration, hence they fall under this category. Decorative pillows are also found on furnishings in more public parts of the home, such as sofas, chairs and window seats. Here, their common use may overlap both orthopedic and bed pillows. For example, unless a person has some particular medical condition, they will likely use a handy decorative pillow for lumbar support, as needed, while seated on a sofa. Likewise, for the occasional nap, decorative pillows are handy for supporting the head or neck, even though they are not covered with a pillow case, as are bed pillows.

There are five common synonyms for decorative pillows which are descriptive of their use in the home. "Accent" Pillows emphasize or accent some other part of the home decor. The terms Sofa Pillow and Couch Pillow refer to the place these decorative pillows are likely found. The terms Toss pillow and Throw pillow refer to the way they generally arrive in their places.

Novelty Pillows are shaped like humorous objects (a banana, tweety bird, a human leg), and are meant to brighten up and add humor to a room or lounge area. " Novelty pillows make the best accessories for any piece of furniture including a sofa" Said Daragh and Clara from Vancouver Decor Magazine.

Floor Pillows are another subset of decorative pillows. These pillows often finish 26x26 inches (one half of the width of the textile, less seam allowance) Miscellaneous Styles Dakimakura is a hugging pillow originating in Japan. Abrasador is a long hugging pillow originating from the Philippines.

A husband pillow (also known as a bedrest or a boyfriend pillow) is a a large, high-backed pillow with two "arms". It is used to prop the user upright while in bed or on the floor, as for reading or watching television. Other uses Pillows may also provide additional aids to relaxation, such as a heating pad or aromatherapy. Pillows are also used to accomplish simulated pregnancy. Using a pillow under the knees while sleeping on the back can relieve low back pain by helping to reduce the curve of the lower back. Using a pillow between the knees while sleeping on the side can prevent the upper leg from pulling downward and creating a twist in the spine. Using a relatively flat pillow under the stomach while sleeping on the stomach can help keep the spine in alignment and alleviate stress on the low back. In this position, it is best to place the head directly on the mattress to avoid arching the spine.

Firestop pillows are used to seal openings in walls and floors required to have a fire-resistance rating.See also Bolster:

A bolster (etymology: Middle English, derived from Old English, and before that the Germanic word bulgstraz) is a long narrow pillow or cushion filled with cotton, down, or fibre. In western countries, it is usually placed at the head of bed and functions as head or back support. In southeast Asian countries, in particular Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, the bolster is designed to be hugged when sleeping. It is called a dakimakura in Japanese. Tradition suggests that a wife would fashion the bolster out of bamboo and give it to her husband when he travelled away from home so that he would not be lonely. It was called a "bamboo wife," "Dutch wife," or chikufujin in Japanese. In many Chinese and Malay families, children are provided with a bolster and the habit of sleeping with a bolster carries over into adulthood. It is said that hugging a bolster will calm one's mind when sleeping, and, in the hot tropical climate of Singapore and Malaysia, it is often too hot to cover oneself with a blanket when sleeping, especially in a non-air-conditioned room. In the past, it was common for people to make their own bolsters Often sheet sets come with pillow and bolster cases. In more traditional Chinese families, a newlywed couple's wedding chamber will have a bed that comes with two pillows and one bolster. The bolster is to provide the husband with something to hug when the wife is not in the mood. The use of the bolster is so common among Indonesian people that most local hotels provide bolsters for their guests. However, this is less common in westernized hotels in Indonesia. The equivalent of bolster in the western countries is the body pillow.

Body pillow: A body pillow is a large cushion support for the head, usually used while sleeping in a bed, or for the body as used on a couch or chair. There are also throw pillows (also called toss pillows), which are pillows that are purely decorative and not designed for support or comfort. There also exist "novelty pillows", (which can be throw or body pillows), which are designed often as licensed products. Such pillows include the popular "Fish Pillow" - a large body pillow that is made to look like a trout. Ralli quilt pillows are famous pillows which are used in Pakistan and India. They are colorful embroidered and quilted by the women artisans.

Cushion: A cushion (from Old French coisson, coussin; from Latin culcita, a quilt), is a soft bag of some ornamental material, stuffed with wool, hair, feathers, polyester staple fiber, non-woven material, or even paper torn into fragments. It may be used for sitting or kneeling upon, or to soften the hardness or angularity of a chair or couch. Cushions and rugs can be used temporarily outside, to soften a hard ground. They can be placed on sun loungers and used to prevent annoyances from moist grass and biting insects. The cushion is a very ancient article of furniture; the inventories of the contents of palaces and great houses in the early Middle Ages constantly made mention of them. Cushions were then often of great size, covered with leather, and firm enough to serve as a seat, but the steady tendency of all furniture has been to grow smaller with time. Cushions: often found in piles. Cushions were, indeed, used as seats at all events in France and Spain at a very much later period, and in Saint-Simon's time we find that in the Spanish court they were still regarded as a peculiarly honorable substitute for a chair. In France, the right to kneel upon a cushion in church behind the king was jealously guarded and strictly regulated, as we learn again from Saint-Simon. This type of cushion was called a carreau, or square. When seats were rude and hard, cushions may have been a necessity; they are now one of the minor luxuries of life. The term cushion is given in architecture to the sides of the Ionic capital. It is also applied to an early and simple form of the Romanesque capitals of Germany and England, which consist of cubical masses, square at the top and rounded off at the four corners, so as to reduce the lower diameter to a circle of the same size as the shaft.

Mattress: A mattress is a mat or pad, usually placed atop a bed, upon which to sleep or lie. The word mattress is derived from Arabic words meaning "to throw" and "place where something is thrown" or "mat, cushion." During the Crusades, Europeans adopted the Arabic method of sleeping on cushions thrown on the floor, and the word materas eventually descended into Middle English through the Romance languages. Though a mattress may be placed directly on the floor, it is usually placed atop a platform (such as a bed or a metal spring foundation) to be further from the ground. Historically, mattresses have been filled with a variety of natural materials, including straw and feathers. Modern mattresses usually contain either an innerspring core or materials such as latex, viscoelastic, or other polyurethane-type foams. Mattresses may also be filled with air or water. Orthopedic pillow An orthopedic pillow is a pillow designed to correct body positioning in bed or while lying in any other surface. Its design obeys to orthopedic guidelines to ensure the right placement and support of one specific part of the body or more to provide safe and healthy rest to the sleeper. It has been traditionally made of foam and fiber, but over a decade ago a new kind of orthopedic pillow appeared: The memory foam pillow, an orthopedic pillow made of memory foam, a heat sensitive material that can acquire the shape of the body lying upon and recover immediately its original shape when the body gets off. Orthopedic pillows are regarded as therapeutic pillows due to the fact they can help - depending on their design - relieve different conditions as sleep apnea, snoring, insomnia, breathing difficulty, blood circulation problems, acid reflux, GERD, lower back pain, sciatica pain, neck pain, whiplash, rotator cuff injury, among others. This way, the sleeper can get longer and deeper sleep without the discomfort produced by the symptoms of these conditions. Nowadays there are many types of orthopedic pillows for almost every part of the human body, as well as orthopedic beds, mattresses, top mattresses, supports and cushions for different orthopedic problems. Some of them have multipurpose and multi-position designs for different physical ailments and sleep disorders.

Pillow fight: A pillow fight is a common game mostly played by young children (but can also occur with teens and adults) in which they attack each other with pillows. Many times pillow fights occur during children's sleepovers. Since pillows are soft, injuries rarely occur. The heft of a pillow can still knock a young person off balance, especially on a soft surface such as a bed, which is a common venue. A useful technique in a pillow fight is to bundle the nibs. In earlier eras pillows would often break, shedding feathers throughout a room. Modern pillows tend to be stronger and are often filled with a solid block of artificial filling, so breakage occurs far less frequently. On the evening of January 16, 1964, the photographer Harry Benson snapped a well-known picture of The Beatles having a pillow fight in their hotel room at the Hotel George V in Paris. Benson claims that the pillow fight was occasioned by "a cable announcing that 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' was number one on the American pop charts.

Throw pillow A throw pillow, or toss pillow, is a small, decorative type of pillow. Throw pillows are usually placed on sofas or armchairs but are also frequently used on beds and day beds. Throw pillows serve both an aesthetic and a functional purpose. Decorative pillows are commonly used to tie in color accents within a room, often drawing on the colors in drapes, walls or area rugs. From a functional perspective, throw pillows provide back, neck and head support. Throw pillows come in various sizes and shapes. The most common size throw pillow is 16 to 18 inch square. However, rectangular, circular and cylindrical throw pillows, called bolsters, are also popular. Outside the United States, throw pillows are more commonly referred to as cushions. Throw pillow and decorative cushions are made from a wide range of textiles including silk, leather, microfiber or faux suede, cotton, linen and hemp. In recent years, decorative pillows have been revived as an artistic medium. Fashion designers have become increasingly attracted to the lucrative home textiles or furnishings market and this has led to a wide range of more embellished looks and styles. Company logos and photos are placed on pillows as well to give a personalized look.

Sunbrella Fabric: Gorgeous, long-lasting and easy to clean solution-dyed acrylic fabric made by Glen Raven Mills. From the ocean to the mountains, and all points in between, Sunbrella lets you bring out your inner sense of style out. Our tough, long-lasting fabrics handle the worst Mother Nature can give, year after year. From the baking sun to endless rain, furniture featuring Sunbrella fabric looks great in any season, and is backed by the best limited warranty in the business. The durability that makes Sunbrella ideal for the great outdoors will give you peace of mind on indoor furniture as well. Best of all, Sunbrella is now available in the rich colors, luscious textures, exquisite patterns and soft hand that you love on your indoor furniture. Indoors or out, Sunbrella has you covered. At Sunbrella, you don't just pick out a furniture fabric - you choose a lifestyle, which is why we've designed a remarkable fabric to support you and your family for years to come.

Double-Cording Cushions: Are used for cushions with boxed or welted style edges. Like the single corded cushions, where a thin strip of fabric if sewn around a heavy gage string or cord and sewn into the seam of the cushions. With double cording, or ‘boxed double cording’ as it is also commonly referred to, the cording is send into both the top and bottom seams of the sidewall fabric panel of the cushions along wit the top and bottom fabric panels. The thickness of the cushions typically dictates how far apart the cording on the sidewalls will be.

Boxed-Edge Cushions: The construction of these cushions have a vertical sidewall that is the same height as the thickness of the cushion. These cushions are made by assembling the top and bottom section of the cut fabric to the sidewall fabric to form a box. This style of cushion is also commonly referred to as ‘welting’. A five inch thick cushion would have a five inch thick sidewall sewn together with the top and bottom sections of the cushion fabric.

Knife-Edge Cushions: Knife edge cushions are cushions that are made by sewing together the top and bottom fabric panels to make a more traditional sewing seam. These type cushions do not have a sidewall like the boxed edged or welted cushions. This style of cushions is most common for smaller thicknesses like one or two inch. Some even prefer using knife edge cushions for as much as three inches, however the finished look on thicker cushions with knife edges style begins to take on the appearance of a pointed or arrow head tip on the side of thicker cushions made with knife edge styling.

 

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