What you should know….

With so many silk comforters on the market it can be a bit of a head-scratcher trying to decide which ones are worth purchasing and which ones are not. Listed below are a few criteria to look out for.

Long Strand Mulberry Silk

Always look for comforters filled with long strand Mulberry silk, and check the percentage of silk filling. Many suppliers tend to use a small amount of long strand Mulberry silk (often on the most visible part of the floss filling), and fill the remainder with cheaper short-fiber silk while advertising the whole thing as 100% Mulberry silk filled. This brings the cost of the comforter down, but also significantly weakens thermal regulation capabilities of the comforter, which renders the item ineffective since its job is to keep you warm before everything else.

No Pockets/Filling Fixation

Unlike down or polyester comforters, silk comforters are filled with sheets of long fiber Mulberry silk layered on top of each other in a special way, which means the comforter is rarely compartmentalized unlike its down/feather filled counterparts; because of this, make sure you check if the filling is properly tacked to the inside of the comforter shell, as untacked silk floss fillings will move around in the shell and bunch up.

Color of the Silk

Silk, being a natural product, should have an ivory hue to it and be slightly iridescent. Many manufacturers bleach their silk to enhance the appearance of their products as well as remove some of the odor of the residual serecin (natural silk glue). However, although bleaching makes the silk look nicer appearance-wise, the nice looks will be short-lived as bleach-induced fiber damage will soon take its toll on the fabric, rendering it brittle and easy to break. Good silk filled comforters such as ours should always have a small zip opening on the shell of the comforter, allowing easy inspection of the silk filling.