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Sheets: wake-up call.
Silk pillowcases that shred in the wash? Linen sheets so wrinkly after laundering that you might as well not bother making the bed? Sky-high thread counts based on creative calculating? Note to the makers of sheets in our tests: Stop sleeping on the job.
Much has changed in the bedding business. Tried-and-true names such as Cannon and Charisma are largely gone, a result of company bankruptcies. High-quality percale sheets--the kind we have recommended--are harder to find, too.
Instead, consumers are faced with high prices, unfamiliar brands, poor-wearing fabrics, and marketing that wrongly places a premium on the highest thread count. Standard sheets ...
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- Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network Leizens, Leticia January 21, 2002 700+ words
...Royal Legacy 250-thread-count cotton-rich full...the Fieldcrest 270-thread-count of 70 percent pima...The 275 stretches the thread-count level," said Seymour...said that although the thread counts are rising, prices...
- Five things to know about... thread count.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 11, 2007 700+ words
...WHAT IT MEANS: Thread count is the number of...that's a 300 thread-count sheet. Thread counts affect the sheet...feel as much as thread count. Some common weaves...allows for very high thread counts. _ Sateen: Has...
- Thread counts: a bed of lies? (scam of the month).(bed linen manufacturers...
- Magazine article from: Good Housekeeping November 1, 2002 700+ words
TEN YEARS AGO, WHO KNEW FROM THREAD COUNTS? Now there's thread-count inflation: 300 threads per inch used to be sheer...the cotton sheets from Grand Patrician (310 thread count). At $29.99 to $69.99 each, they're...
- SHEET MAKERS COUNTING MORE ON THREAD COUNTS THIS MARKET.
- Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network Leizens, Leticia October 15, 2001 700+ words
NEW YORK-Thread counts are rising again. For...vendors said a higher thread count on their sheet programs...value by increasing thread count and cotton quality...Shavel said the 300-thread-count sateen sheets are going...
- THREAD COUNT IS COUNTING MORE AND MORE IN SHEETS.
- Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network Page, Melinda September 25, 2000 700+ words
...320 and 410 thread counts. "People will...twist to high-thread-count sateen sheeting...in the higher thread counts." Hall said...moving into a 230-thread-count from a previous...is increasing thread counts. After testing...patterns in a ...
- DOLLARS & SENSE; EVERY thread counts; Buyers of bedding will find good deals...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Ewoldt, John January 15, 2004 700+ words
...pooh the higher thread counts advertised by...what to buy? A thread count of 300 threads...on sheets with thread counts breaking 1...to trade up to thread counts of 500 or more...queen set (600 thread count, 18-inch pocket...
- Thread count game slammed by FTC [Federal Trade Commission].(News)
- Magazine article from: Home Textiles Today SanFilippo, Michele September 12, 2005 700+ words
...stating that "some thread counts are bogus...stating an inflated thread count, achieved by...for in terms of thread count." Tom Ferrisi...the mystery of thread counts need to be taken...products, including thread count, will be beneficial...become a rule ...
- HIGHER CALLING; THREAD COUNTS ARE ON THE RISE IN SHEETS AT THE BIG THREE...
- Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network Leizens, Leticia June 2, 2003 700+ words
...rich and 250-thread-count, pima all...the highest thread counts available at...collection, a 300-thread-count, solid-color...275- to 300-thread-counts, they gave...is not on the thread count, it is on the...