Being Welsh - and proud

[Baloo]

If you can find any reference to a sleeping bag prior to 1876 I'll concede.

Many people claim to have “invented” the sleeping bag. Our own research suggests that the first was developed by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the first commercial one that we would recognise was produced with his guidance by the Norwegian company G. Fuglesang AS who had been producing “wadding” since 1855.

https://www.tundrasleepingbags.com/n...e-sleeping-bag

Sorry, not picking on you but we needed to get to the truth about sleeping bags.

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Many people claim to have “invented” the sleeping bag. Our own research suggests that the first was developed by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the first commercial one that we would recognise was produced with his guidance by the Norwegian company G. Fuglesang AS who had been producing “wadding” since 1855.

https://www.tundrasleepingbags.com/n...e-sleeping-bag

Sorry, not picking on you but we needed to get to the truth about sleeping bags.

Thanks for doing that, it's incredibly important that this issue is clarified

[Harry Monk]

Many people claim to have “invented” the sleeping bag. Our own research suggests that the first was developed by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the first commercial one that we would recognise was produced with his guidance by the Norwegian company G. Fuglesang AS who had been producing “wadding” since 1855.

https://www.tundrasleepingbags.com/n...e-sleeping-bag

Sorry, not picking on you but we needed to get to the truth about sleeping bags.

That's after 1876. He produced "wadding" in 1855, and did research in 1888 where he then "produced" sleeping bags in 1889. That's 23 years after PRYCE sold 60,000 of his sleeping bags to the Russian Army.

[Baloo]

That's after 1876. He produced "wadding" in 1855, and did research in 1888 where he then "produced" sleeping bags in 1889. That's 23 years after PRYCE sold 60,000 of his sleeping bags to the Russian Army.

This is all very curious and I think something we really need to get to the bottom of. Further research has revealed the following.

As it turns out, the modern-day outdoorsman has the French to thank for the creation of sleeping bags as we loosely know them. In the 1850s, French customs officials patrolled the Pyrenees between Spain and France. Naturally, they needed to keep warm overnight so they created a knapsack bag from sheepskin. They lined the interior with wool and then attached some buckles so they could roll it up during the day. It wasn't pretty and I don't imagine nightly bathroom breaks were easy, but the bag got the job done!

The evolution continued into the 1870s when a Welsh inventor named Pryce Pryce-Jones created the first commercially successful sleeping bag. As the father of the mail order business, P.J. was bound to have an entrepreneurial spirit and proved that with the Euklisia Rug.

The Euklisia Rug was a wool blanket with a pocket near the top for a sewn in, inflatable rubber pillow. Users just climbed in, folded the blanket over their bodies, and fastened the sides together. It seems so simple but this design style eliminated the hassle of men climbing into sack-like sleeping bags. In fact, it was so popular that PJ immediately sold 60,000 bags to the Russian army to be used during the Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War.

Unfortunately for PJ, the city fell before the Russian Army fulfilled their entire order, so he was stuck with 17,000 unused Euklisia Rugs. Never one to sit idle, he added the Rug to his catalog and marketed it as inexpensive bedding for charities. The Rug gained traction, and it was soon being used by outdoor adventurers in the Australian Outback and the British Army.

https://www.sierra.com/blog/lifestyl...-sleeping-bag/