Cecil Long, a production technician at Cuddledown, a bedding manufacturer in Yarmouth, uses a whiffle ball bat to spread down evenly within a comforter while it's being stretched on a frame. After it's stretched, the down is machine-quilted into square pockets.

Jerry Carr, a production technician at Cuddledown, opens a large bag of down feathers before funneling them through a distribution pipe to the factory floor, and later sweeps the remains from the floor (below).

Piles of products are stacked within the "down loft" at Cuddledown.

Jerry Carr of Cuddledown in Yarmouth pushes a pile of down feathers into the suction of a distribution pipe, which routes the filler throughout the factory floor.

Leslie Dube, a production technician at Cuddledown, wheels an empty bin toward her work station, where she sews and packages pillows.

Eric Graffam, an in-house catalog photographer at Cuddledown, moves a ladder off the set after adjusting some studio lighting.

Carr sweeps feathers from the floor into a distribution pipe.