This is a canvas bag that is filled with straw of leaves to make a camp mattress. A handy item to use when in camp or staying at a historic site or Fort Barracks. Size is 72" X 36" secured with 3 pewter buttons. Canvas only- $75.00.

"Paillasse- a French word adopted and used in our Language by the Military; it implies a canvas or sailcloth, bedcase, stuffed with straw- literally a straw bed."
"The commanding officers of the regiments may have straw to stuff their men's paillasses." (p. 308, Vol. 2 Knox).