Choosing your luxury bedding can be very confusing. The term thrown around the most is typically thread count. You shouldn’t judge your luxury bedding by the thread count number, however. First, you should understand exactly what creates the softest luxury bedding by understanding what makes the most luxurious linens. To do this, you must consider much more than just thread count.

Thread count is the number measure of the number of yarns woven into a single square inch of the fabric. Although this is important, it’s only a fraction of what you should be looking for. The quality of the luxury bedding can be determined from three other key components as well, but everything starts from the quality of the fiber itself, as well as the yarn made from the fiber.

The cotton grown on the banks of the Nile River is seen as the world’s best cotton. There, when the river recedes, is an unusually fertile swath of land that nourishes cotton. Egyptian cotton is sought after because it yields the longest-staple cotton in the world, meaning that each individual fiber is longer than the competition’s. Lots of people claim their sheets are Egyptian cotton, but luxury bedding companies typically stay involved in the creation of their products every step of the way, letting them hand select only the absolute best Egyptian cotton. Once the superiority of the cotton is ensured, the raw fiber is cleaned and spu into silken yarns by master craftsmen in Italy.

The quality of the yarn mainly comes from the length of the cotton fiber as long-staple cotton is spun into a stronger, smoother, finer yarn than is possible with shorter staple products, which results in a high thread count. A high thread count can also be achieved by jamming many short-staple cotton yarns into a square inch, resulting in a coarse and heavy product. This is why it’s important to consider things other than thread count when looking for your luxury bedding.

Italy consistently enlists the world’s best spinners, weavers, sewers, embroiderers, and artisans in order to craft their amazing luxury bedding. Generations of expertise and experience go into each piece of linen. The Italians build relationships with the best mills, looms, and factories to ensure their product is the world’s finest. This industry uses ages-old knowledge of the craft mixed with the latest cutting-edge textile technologies, resulting in the best of all worlds for your luxury bedding.

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