Thread count is an easy to understand, straight number to concisely asses luxury bedding quality.
We will not go into technical details here about what thread count really is. If you want to learn more check for it on wikipedia.
It has been used wildly as the main marketing tool for advertising luxury linens. A never ending race to the highest thread count just started. Numbers were inflated going from 300TC all the way up to 1800TC. A 280TC bedding seemed to be a pretty good quality grade only a few years ago while today it doesn’t sound so nice at all.
There’s really been a massive improvement in linens quality today?
Not really!
1000 thread count is the highest weave that can be technically achieved. That’s the real truth.
Secondly, such an high thread count can only be produced out of premium quality extra long staple Egyptian Cotton fibers spun into super fine gauge yarns.Weaving those fine yarns as thin as an hair is a slow an expensive technical process that only a few mills worldwide have been able to implement.As a result those fine fabrics, produced in limited quantities, have very high production costs and become very expensive, retailing for $1.000 and more for a plain sheets set.
Still there’s plenty of bed sheets claiming thread count in the thousands being sold at any price. An explanation can be found as follows:
1) Threacount is inflated by manufacturers that to keep price down use poor quality yarns thus weaving a poor quality fabric. That’s not nice for sheets.
2) The thread count is somehow misrepresented referring to a metric system figure rather than to the actual number of threads woven into an American square inch.
Beware! Luxury linens scam alert.
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