King Waterbed Sheets and Sheet Sets

On the evening of March 20, 2010, the people of Iran celebrated arrival of Norooz, the Persian New Year. On the morning of March 20, 2010, Iranian Americans living in southern California also welcomed the New Year. No one could predict with some degree of certainly that at least one California born, Iranian American awoke in a bed with king waterbed sheets.

The Early History of King Waterbed Sheets

About 3,500 years ago, before the first recorded Norooz celebrations, Persians used to fill their goatskins with water and lay them in the sun. The sun’s rays would then warm those water filled skins. At night, the members of that Persian home would have something nice and warm with which to cover themselves.

At that time the science called “chemistry” did not exist. At that time, no chemists were around, to work on the sort of materials that would make for a more refined sort of “sheet.” Today, however, the owner of a waterbed can take advantage of the knowledge gained by industrious chemists, those that have been busy in the laboratory.

The basic research performed by laboratory chemists laid the groundwork for creation of extra heavy sheets, sheets with elastic on the bottom edge. Such sheets now come in many different colors and sizes. All manner of different fibers have been woven into those waterbed sheets.

The sheet for a king sized waterbed, like every waterbed sheet, has two or more “pockets.” Those elastic pockets serve to hold the sheet in place. The fitted sheet for a waterbed has four pockets. The top sheet for a waterbed has two pockets. Each offer of waterbed sheet sets should advertise the sale of sets that contain a bottom sheet, a top sheet and two pillowcases.

Now if an online shopper wants to order new sheets for a home’s waterbed, that shopper must select the sort of fabric that he or she would like to have in those sheets. Sheet manufacturers have made waterbed sheets out of many different fabrics—flannel, percale, bamboo, silk, satin, pima cotton, organic cotton and Egyptian cotton.

Each of those sheets has an extra heavy duty elastic pocket in at least two places on its edge. If it is a fitted sheet, those pockets can be found on both the top and bottom edge. If it is a top sheet, only its bottom edge will contain any pockets.

No one can say when the first Persian that had slept in a water filled goatskin awoke to a Norooz celebration. However, one can be sure that a growing number of those who once lived in the land called “Persia,” those who now live in Europe, Australia and the United States, will be buying waterbeds. They will then need to purchase sheets for those waterbeds.

The above information is intended to guide those Persian speaking waterbed owners, or any person who currently sleeps, or plans to sleep on a waterbed, regardless of their native tongue.