Luxury Bedding Info

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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Egyptian cotton, often a staple in luxury bedding, is a luxurious cotton that is grown along the Nile River. It’s used to make products which are durable, soft, and in general superior to most other materials on the market. This is why it’s so often used in luxury bedding.

Cloth diapers, shirts, bathrobes, tents, luxury bedding, tablecloths, chef’s coats, stuffed animals, and towels are just a few of the products that are produced from cotton. Any advertisement for anything made with egyptian cotton is likely to be full of claims of luxuriousness, quality, and softness. But just what is Egyptian cotton, and why is it so often used in luxury bedding?

Egyptian cotton, of course, originates from Egypt. The extremely rich soil and unusually humid climate around the Nile River Valley create excellent conditions for growing long cotton fibers, which are also known as staples. Egyptian cotton is considered an ELS, which means extra-long staple, cotton. Egyptian cotton staples will range anywhere from one and a half inches to just over two inches. This long length, which is around twice the length of other, inferior cotton fibers, allows Egyptian cotton to be spun into extremely fine yarns. Not only strong and durable, these yarns are also extremely soft, making them a necessity in luxury bedding.

Egyptian cotton also has the ability to absorb unusually large amounts of liquid. This means that your luxury bedding could be used in lieu of paper towels, which would save you lots of money in the long run. I kid. The ability to absorb large amounts of liquids allows it to soak in the dies that make luxury bedding extremely vibrantly colored. That color also lasts longer than most other, inferior cotton products. Although not used for paper towels, egyptian cotton is sometimes used in bathrobes and bath towels, as humans appreciate its softness far more than your kitchen counter would.

I’m sure you’re wondering, why can’t so-called egyptian cotton be made elsewhere? Well, in a way it can. Although true egyptian cotton comes from Egypt alone, this is mostly a trademarked name. The logo of a white cotton plant inside a dark triangle, which symbolizes an egyptian pyramid, tells you that the product is true, 100% egyptian cotton. Since it’s one of Egypts best markets, they’re very eager to hold onto their cotton’s fine reputations.

There is also an American version of Egyptian cotton. This is known as Pima cotton, from the Pima Indian Reservation. The producers of egyptian cotton debate constantly with those who make Pima cotton over which cotton is actually superior.

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