The Original Feather Pillow

The pillow that started it all. With over 100 years of pillow making and design experience, the Down & Feather Co. Original Feather Pillow is just like the one at grandma's house. This old-fashioned heavy feather pillow is filled with premium quality 100% Hungarian goose feather and wrapped in an old fashion blue and white striped cotton shell and sealed using original knife-edge stitching.

This Old Fashioned Feather Pillow is filled with premium quality 100% Hungarian goose feather and wrapped in an old fashion blue and white striped cotton shell. Using higher quality Hungarian goose feather means fewer feathers will poke you while you sleep at night. If you are looking to replace the existing pillow filled with feathers that you have had for 25, 30, or even 40 years – well, here it is.

Just remember the one you are replacing has probably become very soft and broken in after decades of use. This one is brand new and may require both love and patience to feel like the pillow you are replacing.

Our feather pillows feel much different than our down pillows. You will sleep more “ON” our heavy feathered pillows and “IN” our down pillows. The Classic Feather pillow loves to be squeezed and mashed into the perfect shape to provide you support where you need it most. When you return to bed it's just like you left and not in its original "pillow shape". The Classic is a traditional design without gussets or chambers and filled with the finest Hungarian goose feather and Hungarian white goose down for lasting support.

The best way to answer this question is actually to explain how we make the pillow a different density or thickness. Density; soft, medium, firm and extra firm is determined by how many ounces of down we fill the pillow with.

For example, our standard soft density 850 fill power goose down pillow has 14 ounces inside. The medium density pillow will have 16 ounces of down inside. The down inside the pillow is still very soft but now there is more of it making the pillow thicker so the pillows 'personality' of be very soft remains regardless of the amount of down used to make the pillow.

This feather pillow is ideal if your primary sleep style is on your side and occasionally rotating to your back or stomach. Feathers sleep a lot firmer under compression, meaning when you rest your head on them, our old-fashioned heavy feather pillows provide more support than a similar density all-down pillow. As you roll to your back you will enjoy the support provided as the feathers compress under your head while remaining soft if you roll to your stomach. If you are not experiencing the support you hoped for while sleeping on your back just slide the feather pillow down your neck and just on top of your shoulders. That will allow the pillow to shape itself more around the neck than your head for added support

Feathers are pretty incredible. Nature created the feather to perform many functions, one of which, is to keep the water away from the down clusters that actually trap the air and keep the bird from freezing to death during the cold winter months. So nature added just a touch of natural oils to help feathers wick away the water in order to keep the bird dry so you do not want to wash a feather pillow.

If you strip away the natural oils from the feathers they will be brittle and break more easily while you sleep. When brittle feathers break they have a tendency to be very sharp increasing the number of feathers that will poke you.