Purchasing the finest Silk Duvets

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Purchasing the finest Silk Duvets

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• Publié par: timothyJ44
• Publié le: 15 octobre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 173
• Langue: English

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Purchasing the finest Silk Duvets

Is a comforter the same as a duvet? While many people in the United States equate the two,

traditionally duvets and comforters aren’t the same. are different, at least from a traditional standpoint.

By tradition, a duvet is used as the only covering a sleeping person uses in bed, while a comforter is used

over a sheet, and sometimes over a blanket, too.

Australians originally called

duvet cover sets

“continental quilts,” and some Australians today call them

“doonas.” Today, some Europeans name any thick blanket a duvet.

The word “duvet” is French for “down,” and the first duvets were made in France out of eider duck

down.

But today, feathers, goose down, silk, synthetics, cotton, wool or a combination of materials are used as

filling, as well as duck down.

Duvets filled with silk have the much-deserved recognition of being the most luxurious and comfortable

duvets. However, some industrial silk duvets don’t live up to that recognition.

Silk cocoons can be harvested from the wild (tussah silk) or from domesticated plants (mulberry silk).

Tussah silk cocoons are gathered in the wild from worms that eat oak leaves. These cocoons are courser

than mulberry cocoons and have a dark brown colour. The silk threads are less springy and have an

uneven surface. They are ordinarily woven into fabrics with a coarse surface. This fabric should really

only be used for curtains, cushions,

bed Linen UK

spreads and clothes, but it occasionally is used for

filling

duvet covers UK

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Domesticated silkworms are only fed mulberry leaves. Mulberry cocoons are a pearl colour and are

finer, smoother, more round and smaller than tussah cocoons. Mulberry silk is loaded with amino acids

and proteins.

Mulberry silk feels extraordinarily soft to the touch and has a fine fibre.

There is also a significant difference in quality between machine-extracted and hand-extracted silk.

Hand-extracted silk is cleansed by hand and then manually stretched into a net shape. It is then laid out

in partial shade to dry naturally. Then it's manually layered, which traps air between the layers and

makes sure the filling is spread evenly all through the duvet.

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Hand-extracted silk smells fresh because of being air-dried with no bleach or softeners added. No

chemicals are used in the complete process. Hand-extracted silk has a pearl colour, while machine silk is

shinier with a whitish colour, on account of being bleached.

With machine-extracted silk, large amounts of cocoons are typically dumped into a machine for boiling

prior to extraction, which turns the silk yellow. The silk then has to be bleached. Industrial softeners are

often also used.

Because of the chemicals used, the silk loses its anti-allergy properties. And because they use bigger

sheets of silk, less air is trapped in the filling, so the duvet isn’t as soft or as insulating as hand-extracted

duvets are. These big sheets are also more apt to mat up.

Some duvets are stuffed with broken silk fibres that have to be sewn together. These low quality duvets

trap less air and oftentimes mat up and produce cool spots. These broken fibres are oft-times put in the

middle of the duvet, with borders of better silk surrounding them.

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