"It is worth double checking if you see a description of ‘Hand Nested’ pocket springs that they really are ‘Individually Hand Nested‘ and not a mass produced pocket sprung base (Nested). " Apart from actually asking the question, is there any other way to check the pocket springs are hand nested?

HI Maria. Good point. This is one of those instances where a descriptive wordplay is being used to make out something is better than it actually is. The correct definition of "Hand Nested Pocket Springs" and "Hand Formed Pocket Springs" is when the mattress manufacturer compiles the actual spring unit themselves "from scratch" utilising a great pile of individual rows of springs without the use of a machine. The bulk of mass produced pocket springs are already made up - nested and formed by machine (albeit with some hands being involved along the way) - by a spring manufacturer and delivered to the mattress manufacturer ready to be used. For a mattress manufacturer to state that their spring unit is "Individually hand nested" or "Hand Formed" implies to me that they themselves have formed and compiled the unit which of course gives the mattress an element of craftsmanship. However, it can be argued that somewhere down the line of spring manufacture - Someone- has indeed layered these springs by hand, even though this is as minimal as taking a row of springs from one machine and placing them in another to be glued together to make a complete unit. Hand nesting in its truest sense is done by the likes of Vi Spring or Savoir beds (and us in our Artisan Calico range) where each mattress is built from a 'snake' of springs upwards. It's the implication that a particular mattress has ACTUALLY been hand formed and hand nested that is so fundamentally wrong. Once you know that over 90% of all mattresses utilise mass produced, machine formed and machine nested pocket springs you then see that some descriptions use this term to arguably suggest a particular mattress is built 'better' than any other. It may be pedantic, but the actual difference between Hand Nested and Nested is indeed vast. If the spring unit is compiled manually then it should quite rightly be referred to as Hand Nested. If the spring unit is compiled mainly by machine then it should be referred to as Nested. Incidentally, you can generally assume that any spring count above 1000 will be nested i.e the springs are closer together in a honeycomb pattern. Good question. John and Ryan.