Bedding Buying Guide Bedding
We spend on average 33% of our lives asleep and choosing the right bed and bedding is essential to have sound, refreshing sleep while our bodies repair and renew our internal cells.
A luxury duvet cover or bedspread can transform your room into a haven of total luxury instantly. You could either buy colors and designs that impart that look of luxury or you could have bedding that is truly luxurious with superb material and feel. Firstly you need to decide on the size. You can either buy super king bedding, king size bedding, double bed bedding or single bed size . You can choose your super king bedding from classic, staple colours like cream, white, pink or blue or bolder, fashionable colours like purple, red or black!
Silk and satin bedding sets can be extremely luxurious and can make you feel like royalty, whilst vogue materials like faux suede will give you a very contemporary look. Good bedding may be a little bit dearer but it lasts longer and feels better then cheaper versions.
You can gage the quality of bed linen by its thread count (or the number of threads per square inch). The higher the thread count, the softer and silkier and durable the fabric is. Below, are some of the fabrics you can
get.
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Fabrics
Each fabric commonly used to make bed sheets has its own merits.
Percale sheets offer a smooth, flat, and closely-woven fabric, finer than muslin and usually found in sheets with a thread count of 180 to 200. Percale sheets can be found in 100 percent cotton or in polyester and cotton (also know as polycotton) blends.
68 pick sheets, whilst not as luxurious as Percale sheets, are still fine quality sheets. As the name suggests, these sheets have 68 threads per square inch (as opposed to 180 in the Percale). You can get 68 pick sheets in either a fitted sheet, flat sheet, or valance sheet on this site.
56 pick sheets are very low quality. These sheets are not very hard wearing and tend to get those little balls of material on them after a few washes.
Flannelette sheets are warm and insulating flannelette sheets are a wool textile, and may be blended with either a synthetic fabric or cotton. Instead of describing thread count, manufacturers measure flannel per square yard in ounces. Good quality flannelette sheets typically measure 4 oz. of flannel per square yard or more.
For single bed, double bed, king size bed and super king size bed sizing dimensions, see our size chart.
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