Duvet Cover Sets

Six fabrics, three distinct feels. Use this to narrow it down before you shop.

The weave matters more than the number on the label.

Sateen is woven so that more thread surface sits on the face of the fabric. That gives it a smooth, fluid hand and a soft sheen, and it drapes closely over your duvet. It holds a little more warmth than percale, which makes it the year-round choice for most sleepers. Our Bliss, Damask Stripe and Organic Cotton Sateen sets are sateen weaves.

Percale is a simple one-over-one weave. It feels crisp and cool, looks matte rather than lustrous, and lifts slightly away from the skin so air moves through it. If you sleep hot, or you love the feel of a freshly pressed shirt, percale is your weave. Our 100% Organic Cotton Percale set is finished with a peach treatment, so it stays crisp without feeling stiff on the first night.

Rayon from bamboo is a different material entirely, not a cotton weave. The fibre is smooth and dense, so it feels cool to the touch and drapes more fluidly than cotton. Our Bamboo Solid and Bamboo Stripe sets suit sleepers who run warm and prefer a silky finish over a crisp one.

Still deciding? If you overheat at night, take percale or bamboo. If you want the classic hotel bed, take sateen.

A Royal Elite duvet cover set is a complete set. Many bedding brands sell the duvet cover alone and charge separately for shams, which can add forty to fifty dollars to the real cost of dressing your bed.

Every Royal Elite set includes:

• One duvet cover in your chosen size
• One pillow sham with Twin
• Two matching pillow shams with Double, Queen, King and Super King

The duvet insert is sold separately. A duvet cover is the washable outer layer that protects the duvet inside it — browse our Goose Down Duvets, Down Duvets and Wool and Silk Duvets to pair with your cover.

Match your duvet cover to your duvet insert, not to your mattress. A cover sized to the mattress will leave your duvet compressed at the corners.

Thread count measures how many threads are woven into a square inch of fabric. It is a useful number, but it is not a quality score, and the four-figure counts advertised by some retailers are usually reached by counting multi-ply yarns more than once.

What actually determines how a duvet cover feels and how long it lasts is the fibre. Long-staple cotton — the combed Egyptian cotton in our Bliss and Damask Stripe sets — is spun from longer fibres, so the yarn is smoother, sheds less, and resists pilling far better than short-staple cotton at the same thread count.

Our range runs from 300 to 400 thread count. That is a deliberate range, not a compromise. At 300 thread count in a percale weave, the fabric breathes properly; pushing it higher would close the weave and defeat the point. At 400 thread count in a sateen weave, you get the smooth drape without the fabric becoming heavy or airless.