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Which duvet: advice please!

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granjura Sun 22-Jul-12 21:22:29

I really do not think that the gassing of silkworms can be compared with repeated live plucking of geese in factory farms, sorry.
Plenty of videos and info on Google- but won't post any links as they are NOT for the faint hearted.

johanna Sun 22-Jul-12 21:17:50

Here is another address for you jeni

www.gingerly.co.uk

I got ours from there. Fabulous.Plenty of choice ,tog wise, and beautifully made.

JessM Sun 22-Jul-12 21:06:35

"silkworms" at that point in the proceedings are pupae, filled with caterpillar soup.
I like my silk duvet.
i like sleeping under micro fibre blankets even better, really soft, light and they don't seem to build up heat like duvets.

Bez Sun 22-Jul-12 20:53:39

My friend has a silk filled duvet she bought when she was doing a walk along the great wall of China for a charity - she says they are beautifully warm but because they are thin you expect them to be the same as a summer weight - eventually for the worst of the winter they had to resort to thicker and heavier type - a mental thing really.

Anagram Sun 22-Jul-12 20:50:18

What happens to silkworms, Elegran?
Our duvets are all synthetic and I have no complaints!

petallus Sun 22-Jul-12 20:47:36

Oh granjura that sounds ghastly. The most expensive ones in JL seem to be from Eastern Europe.

I do care about that kind of thing. I already have a 10.5 tog goose down duvet which I've had for years. I might look into silk or hollow fibre now.

Elegran Sun 22-Jul-12 20:44:53

What happens to silkworms to get silk is as bad as what happens to the geese granjura was telling us about.

granjura Sun 22-Jul-12 20:43:22

www.silksleep.com

Lots of adverts and info on Google.

jeni Sun 22-Jul-12 20:28:46

A silk duvet sounds great! I've never seen one! Any information please?

Ariadne Sun 22-Jul-12 20:23:05

Hollow fibre quilts drape very well; both our quilts (summer and winter) are from IKEA and are lasting very well.

Bags Sun 22-Jul-12 20:13:29

jura, [shocked]. Gosh! I didn't know that either. Oh dear!

granjura Sun 22-Jul-12 20:02:58

We have a down duvet, and we love it. But since we bought it we found that there is a lot of cruelty involved in down harvesting- mostly in Eastern Europe, where geese are plucked naked, alive, about 5 times in their lifetime before being gassed. Sorry about this- but it really upset me.

DD and OH bought a silk duvet a couple of years back and they say it is wonderful. Warm in winter, cool in Summer, light and totally allergy free. Expensive but they say worth it.

Bags Sun 22-Jul-12 19:58:15

Well, I've a mixed goose and duck down one which I've had for thirty-seven years and which I'm still using, and it's fine. It's my winter one, 12 tog. At the moment I'm using a 9-tog one which will probably see me through the summer except for a few warm nights which may occur sometime. Whopping 15°C max here today and below 10° at night. On very cold winter nights, I wear a cashmere jumper over my pjs, and socks, and a hat (well, it's a snoody thing, actually). Snug as the proverbial bug smile.

So, in short, down duvets are good value, I think, though an expensive outlay initially.

petallus Sun 22-Jul-12 18:16:02

I want to buy a lightweight duvet for the Summer (now it seems to have arrived), probably 4.5 tog. Would like a down or feather one but can't decide if it is worth paying the extra for goosedown. My last duvet was man-made fibre but it didn't drape over the body so well.

Anybody got any advice?