How to Choose Quality Luxury Egyptian or Supima Cotton Duvets
When you start looking for a new duvet comforter cover you’ll find that there are many different fabrics available. It can be confusing, especially when you’re purchasing online and you don’t have the opportunity to feel the fabric.
If you’re looking for the best of the best luxury linens, you want to start by trying to find some quality Egyptian and/or supima cottons. They will both feel better than mixed or generic cottons. Both are known for feeling supremely soft and they get softer with each washing. They’re strong and take to color much better as well. A high quality cotton will ensure that your duvet will last for years, hold the color after washing and feel great for years.
Supima:
First, supima is an abreviation for superior pima. Supima cotton has been called “the cashmere of cotton” for its softness, strength and beautiful strong colors. The reason that supima is so soft is due to using a longer staple length. This means that there are longer fibers (35% longer than regular cotton), resulting in fewer ends, a smoother surface and less piling. The strength of supima allows for lighter weights with the same durability. Supima can be up to 45% stronger than traditional cotton. The color of supima cottons are usually rich and long lasting. Supima can absorb color much better than regular cotton.
Read labels carefully because pima and supima are different. An item that has the official supima name are made in America from purely US grown pima cotton.
Egyptian cotton is exactly what it’s name implies, cotton from Egypt. Egyptian cotton also consists of extra long staples (ELS) like supima does. About 40% of the cotton that comes out of Egypt is ELS. If an item says it’s egyptian cotton, make sure that it’s 100% and if possible find out if it’s ELS. Any cotton coming out of egypt can call itself “egyptian“, so being able to feel it before buying is ideal. If buying online, try to buy an item that has a lot of reviews where people are happy with the feel. If they are, it’s probably the high quality egyptian that you’re hoping it is.
Since supima and egyptian cotton are of such high quality, you can get away with a lower thread cound and still have a high quality, extra soft feeling sheet. For instance, a 600 thread count of a generic cotton won’t feel as nice as a 400 thread count in supima or egyptian.
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