FAQs

What products does Wild Rose Beds offer?

We expertly handcraft all kinds of mattresses—everything from bassinet matts to hospice beds. Our most popular models are crib and Queen mattresses, but we can produce any size and design of mattress to suit your needs.

We also make the world’s most fabulous pillows with specific models for adults, toddlers, and larger support props for pregnancy and spinal health conditions.

All Wild Rose products are made with organic and non-offgassing natural materials, with the health and comfort of the sleeper in mind.

Sounds dreamy! Where can I see your beds?

We don’t have a showroom, because everyone’s body and sleeping situation are different and no showroom is flexible enough to accommodate all of the possibilities. Also, producing a suite of mattresses that don’t get used every day and night seems wasteful to us.

We focus on designing the perfect mattress for each individual and slaying with our quality production techniques and dreamy materials.

If you’re interested in learning more about Wild Rose Beds, get in touch and we’ll bring some materials to show you, or arrange a tour of the workshop.

How long will it take for my mattress to be ready?

We operate on an “as-close-to-zero-waste-as-possible” basis and only make mattresses when someone asks us to. Sometimes it can take a couple of weeks to gather the right materials for the bed. Mattresses are usually ready in 4-6 weeks from the day a person orders one.

How long will it take for my pillow to be ready?

Luckily, pillows are quicker than mattresses! We have pillow stuff on hand in the shop at all times, and we’ll generally make a batch of about a dozen pillows at a time.

What’s the shipping situation?

Pillows: Yes! We can mail them anywhere Canada Post delivers to.

Mattresses: We deliver our Calgary orders in person twice monthly. For orders elsewhere in Alberta, we may hold off on the drop off until we’ve arranged a tour of your region. For mattress orders for delivery outside of Alberta, we’ll have to talk.

Can I choose cheaper materials and get a cheaper bed?

The short answer is no. Wild Rose Beds is committed to using materials with the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), or Global Organic Latex Standard (GOLS) certifications. When products aren’t available with these certifications at a reasonable price, we’ll go as unprocessed, untreated, and traceable as possible. For example, there is such a thing as GOTS certified wool fibre (from Bulgaria) but we’d much rather buy wool from a nice Canadian sheep farmer friend who doesn’t use nasty chemical crap when washing and carding their stuff.

Why do you use Certified Organic fabrics, and why is it so important for your bedstuff to be fire-retardant free?

It’s not you, it’s us. If you’ve ever cut and sewn a tonne of fabric, you won’t be surprised when we say that dye, dusty lint, and threads from that fabric get everywhere. And we mean EVERYWHERE. For the sake of our health—our endocrine health in particular—we’d much rather find ORGANIC remnants of bed stuff under our fingernails, in our hair, in our boilersuit pockets, in our underwear, and on our handkerchiefs if we forgot to throw on a respirator for a little bit.

Fun fact: some organic fabrics are made with Certified Organic fibres and AZO free dyes, but then they’re treated with fire retardant chemicals. WTF?! The toxic crap burden we face every day is high enough; no one needs to absorb any offgassing thing from their bed to make up for a deficit of chemicals.

At Wild Rose Beds we’ve researched the inherent fire resistance of each of our fabrics. We’ve even burnt a few things to make sure we’re CCPSA compliant :) We only buy stuff that’s guaranteed free from fire retardants and formeldahyde, and the copious amounts of natural wool batting in each of our products acts as a natural fire retardant anyway.

Hold up, is the thread organic too?

Nope! We use Canadian made, OEKO-Tex 100 Certified thick polyester thread. (“OEKO-Tex 100” means it’s safe for humans and baby humans to be in contact with for prolonged periods of daily life.) We could use organic cotton threads on your bed if you really want us to, but this would knock a few years off the longevity of your bed.

We love you, but we don’t need to see you all of the time. You should be able to ride a Wild Rose Bed for 10 to 15 years before certain materials inside of it need refreshing.

Polyester threads mean that when your bed is a-rockin’, you won’t come a-knockin’ to Wild Rose Beds to get your blown seams replaced. Cotton thread, even though it’s mercerized and processed in all kinds of ways to be strong, just isn’t as butch as outdoor/sailing grade polyester thread.

And while we’re on the topic of non-organic bed materials, we should mention zipper. Zipper teeth and pulls, whether they’re plastic or metal, just can’t be certified as organic. You could put non-organic zipper teeth onto a Certified Organic cotton fabric tape, but that stuff’s just expensive and not as durable as the regular polyester tape. Zippers aren’t all bad though—we purchase zippers made from recycled plastic bottles.