Silk duvets are the ultimate in bedding luxury! Our silk duvets are filled with 100% premium grade, natural mulberry silk floss, and encased in crisp pure cotton. Superbly soft and lightweight, our silk duvets will contour to every part of your body.
Silk duvets are not only the ultimate in luxury, but also have amazing qualities not found in goose down or wool duvets.
Silk is a natural insulator: Depending on the temperature, silk duvets either draw heat away from the body, or traps in the warmth. In the winter, the large fibres in silk duvets, reduce heat loss from the body, but in summer, the silk fleece sheds surplus heat by wicking away moisture from your body - keeping you cool and comfortable.
This also means that one silk duvet will satisfy two sleepers with different warmth needs.
Silk is naturally hypoallergenic: Silk duvets are resistant to dust and house mites, mildew, mould, and rot that attacks other fibres. Sufferers of asthma, blocked sinuses or other hay fever symptoms, can find relief in silk duvet bedding, as well as those with allergies to down or other synthetic material.
Silk is composed of 18 amino acids: The same amino acids that are found in our own bodies. Medical studies have show that this can help blood circulation and your digestion system during sleep. It also helps to reduce the discomfort of itchy skin and aids in preventing vascular sclerosis.
Silk duvets are also suited to children: Their lightweight nature and breathable qualities ensure a regulated, even, sleep temperature.
Silk duvets provide the same warmth as down duvets. They are comfortable all year round due to their insulating properties. Grams per metre (gsm) is the amount of silk (by weight) inside the cotton casing, on a square metre basis.
Manufacturing Silk Duvets
Our silk duvets are manufactured in China under strict quality control, ensuring that the Grade-A mulberry silk filling is of the finest quality. The silk threads are teased out to the size of the duvet and layered multiple times to create a thick floss. Detailed stitching ensures the silk filling is held well in place, eliminating any cold spots, and it will remain like this for its entire lifetime. The medium weight silk duvet comes equipped with its own zipper so you can open it up to see the silk fleece first hand.
Silk Duvet Care & Cleaning Instructions
Your silk duvet will last a lifetime if proper care is taken.
- Always use a removable cover to protect the silk inner from dirt and stains.
- Air outdoors every 3 months for 2 hours and up to a maximum of 3 hours.
This should be all that is needed to keep your silk duvet fresh and clean. Silk fibres do not absorb moisture or odours, avoiding the necessity to wash your inner to freshen it up.
Silk duvets are not are not intended for use in circumstances where frequent complete cleaning is necessary. Only use wet cleaning when absolutely essential.
Should your silk duvet inner require deeper cleaning, please follow these steps:
- Isolate the soiled area only.
- Handwash with cold water and a very gentle\delicate washing agent. (A special
silk washing agent is perfect)
- Do not use bleach or strong detergents.
- Rinse thoroughly and squeeze excess water by pressing the two sides together.
- Do not wring.
- Dry flat.
- Drycleaning uses chemicals which may damage the silk and is not recommended.
- Do not tumble dry or iron.
Do not shake the silk duvet inner strongly, as this may displace the hand layered silk floss.
Damage to your silk inner caused by incorrect care will void your warranty.
Silk Production
Silkworm Production
The first stage of silk production is the hatching of the silkworm egg in a controlled environment which are then examined to ensure they are free of disease. The female deposits 300-400 eggs at a time.?
They are fastened to a flat surface by a gummy substance secreted by the female. The larvae hatch in about 10 days and are about 0.6cm long. Once hatched, they are placed under a layer of gauze and fed huge amounts of cut up mulberry leaves during which time they are left to moult (shed its skin) four times. Larvae fed on mulberry leaves produce the very finest silk. The larvae will eat 50,000 times its initial weight in plant material.
After it has reached its maximum growth at 7.5cm at around 4-6 weeks it stops eating, changes colour and attaches itself to a compartmented frame, twig, tree or shrub in rearing houses to spin their silk cocoons over a 3-8 day period. This is period is termed pupating.
A Hard Days Night
Steadily over the next four days the silkworm produces a fine thread by making a figure of eight movement some 300,000 times, constructing a cocoon in which it intends to spend the chrysalis stage where it is in a state of sleep and casting off of skin. After this the pupae begins the sixteen days which would normally result in the miracle of transformation to a winged being - the moth.
Silk Yield
The amount of usable silk from each cocoon is small. Around 500 silkworms or 80 kg of cocoons and 200kg of mulberry leaves are required to produce 1 kg of raw silk.
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