Pillow

A pillow, cushion in Austria (plural: pillows ), is a with down, foam or other soft material filled and waterproof bag. The fabric to accommodate the filling is here also called percale or ticking.

Also fillings with nuts or grains or with slurries ( peat or clay) are common, however. Rather than soft surface, but as a heat storage There is no uniform or standardized typing for pillows. Cushions are distinguished by use and filling.

Uses

The pillow or pillow can be used as a supportive base of the head in the supine posture in bed or on the neck or back on the sofa. Fulfills a similar function a column filled with foam neck roll and the bath pillow made ​​of waterproof made ​​with open cell foam.

The seat cushion is a support -free seating, which is common in many cultures. In Europe, where it was the most common seating in the Middle Ages, it is now used rarely. It is used as a Zafu meditation seat in use. As a seat cushion, a cushioned pad for the seat of a chair is known today. In this context, it is not to be confused with the padded seat.

The shoulder pad is a triangular shaped pillow, on which you can rest with the armpit, if you sit on the floor and eating, for example, at a low table. This type of pad is used almost exclusively in Thailand and made of colorful painted with indigo cotton.

The decorative pillows serves as a decorative accessory and back support on the sofa.

The parade is a pillow for decoration on the actual pillow lying, larger pillow with embroidery or other embellishments.

Körnerkissen other hand, are used to slowly deliver the content in the water and the strength, the oil and the spelled or other ligneous parts stored heat. The pad acts like a hot water bottle. Fillings with cherry stone, grape seed, grain of wheat, spelled grain, rapeseed are common.

Side sleeper pillows are oblong, usually 1.50 meters long and have a diameter of about 25 - 40 centimeters. For use are side sleeper pillow, as the name suggests, with side sleepers. This is the side sleeper pillow between the upper and the lower leg. Through this sleeping position, the bending of the cervical spine is prevented and relieved the back.

Hazards

In nearly all used pillows to live house dust mites, their droppings can trigger allergies. Moreover, pillows hotbed of various molds that can trigger allergies, infections and other diseases.

Improperly placed pillows can be problematic from an orthopedic point of view.

Sayings

A good conscience is a soft pillow is to say, who has no feelings of guilt, sleep better.

Others

• As a pillow or cushion battle is called a jocular scrimmage, thrown in the cushion and is taken with pillows on the opponent. With a gigantic pillow fight the battle of Jena and Auerstedt was reproduced on historic ground on June 7, 2006 by 200 participants, took place there exactly 200 years ago and in the Napoleonic army defeated the Prussians devastating. The pillow fight was choreographed prepared by students of the Bauhaus University in Weimar, was recorded by the MDR and lasted 1.5 hours. According to eyewitnesses, at the end of professors, students, onlookers, police forces and police have taken each other with pillows.

• The first cushion Battle World Champion was crowned in 2011. The 24- year-old student Gudrun Grond Ingersoll, a member of the team " Punching pad " the "Austrian Pillow Fight League," sat down in New York in "Pillow Fight" against seven rivals by collecting gold. For the title, there was a 45 centimeter-high golden trophy.

• Pillow Castle is the name of small caves or grottoes of compiled pillows and blankets, often through forced child labor. Furthermore, the term is also used by some people to refer to their sleeping quarters.

• On the first Saturday of April is International Pillow Fight Day instead ( " International Pillow Fight Day" and " pillow fight flash mob ").