Bed Linen
Modern bed linen trends move at a very fast pace, colours and fabrics account for the majority of the changes but more and more duvet covers now have adornments such as taffetta, sequins, pintuck hem and many, many more.
A complete bed linen set may consist of a fitted bottom sheet, a flat top sheet, pillowcases either plain hem or the modern oxford style, duvet or quilt cover which has mainly dispensed of the traditional blanket. The reason for the disappearance of the blanket being mainly weight and hygiene reasons.
In the past bedlinen duvet covers where mainly a thing for the wealthy, the Egyptians used to adorn their cotton sheets with valuable items such as gold and silver paints. Today this same type of adornments is achieved at a much more cost effective price using modern dyeing techniques and printing duvets with high gloss and resolution colours and graphics enhances the overall look in the bedroom.
With the bed now becoming the main focal point in the bedroom, matching the bedding with the walls and the curtains is now reversed with more and more pastel paints being applied to walls, the bedding has had to add that extra splash of colour. This is clearly the cheaper and much quicker option than repainting the walls every time you need a change, what could be easier than just going out to buy a new duvet cover or bed throw.
As more and more emphasis is made to fashion the bedroom has had to come to terms with changing trends, recent trends were often just plain white and ivory duvet covers with a brightly covered bed sash or blanket at the bottom. This was first introduced in top class hotels with patrons wanting to emulate this feature in their own homes. Although the pastel duvet cover still accounts for nearly 75% of all the colours sold, more and more brightly coloured sheets like cerise pink and fuchsia greens are now being purchased.
The hotel market has educated their customers to the benefits and cool crisp sleeping qualities of the finer thread count linens, more and more high quality bed linen of 400 count and over are now being sold. One of our best selling premium ranges is the Sheridan 1200 Count Millenia Stripe Bedlinen range, this is a technological marvel in terms of being a very high thread count cotton percale that is wonderful to sleep under, soft super cool and crisp-what more could you ask for!
Hotel quality sheets start at the entry level 200 count ranging up to the more luxurious 1000 count sheets, they are normally plain in style but more and more are now stocking duvet covers that have a self stripe in them, this is a great way of making a white or ivory colour much more attractive to the eye and makes the surface look much more rich in texture.
