Night Lark duvets

Bazza

Whilst I love the idea of not wrestling with a duvet cover, I’ve only ever had down duvets and pure cotton covers, so do these feel synthetic?

Bazza My NightLark ones are covered in a waffle cotton, so no chance at all of them feeling "synthetic".

Thanks,*Elegran*. I an really adamant about having a feather and down one. I might be less adamant now.

I HATE changing the beds.

Try temu.com they have hundreds of coverless duvets on sale at a fraction of the price of Night Lark. I’ve bought several items from temu.com (including two dresses for less than £15) and found them all perfectly okay even though they seem to be so cheap as to be unbelievable quality for the price. My other half particularly buys diy tools and says they are a quality product. The only thing I would stress is that they take at least a couple of weeks for delivery due to being a Chinese company, operating out of Shanghai.

Had mine for years

Sounds good - but is coverless duvet not just a fancy name for a quilt? 😄

We sleep happily under an all cotton bed cover from IKEA and a top sheet. I have them in 3 different colours and have had them for years (cost was about £40 each).

You don't need a sheet with them.

Retread

Sounds good - but is coverless duvet not just a fancy name for a quilt? 😄

We sleep happily under an all cotton bed cover from IKEA and a top sheet. I have them in 3 different colours and have had them for years (cost was about £40 each).

As Luckygirl said, you don't need a top sheet.

Why call them "coverless duvets" and not "quilts"?

To me, quilts are colourful bedspreads, usually-hand made (or made on a domestic sewing machine in a home, not a factory) and quilted all over in patterns. They are not very thick, and are meant to lie over the top of the bedclothes and hang down round the edges (or to hang decoratively on the wall) In cultures where quilts are the traditionable bedding, they usually use several on top of one another, depending on the local weather.

Eiderdowns used to lie on top of the bedclothes, too, but they stopped at the edge of the bed. The best were filled with eiderduck down in a down-proof inner lining, next expensive with goose down or duck down, then mixed feathers and down, the cheapest being more feathers than down and correspondingly heavy. The visible side of the covering fabric was silk or silk substitutes - rayon, nylon and other manmade fabrics - and the underside of a plainer fabric, all quilted through in geometric and decorative stitching.

Duvets have been used for centuries. The "feather beds" of the past were often used on top of the sleeper as well as underneath. On the continent the tradition continued, but in the Uk they only became popular in about the 1970's. The first ones were filled with all down, with feathers and down, or just with feathers. The ones I slept under on a visit to Germany on the late 50's had an immaculate white cotton loose cover. It was incredibly comfortable, and very light, so must have been all down.

When manmade fillings began to replace feathers and down for pillows, they also began to be used for duvets, as they were lighter, and more washable, except that with wear and washing the earlier fillings tended to stick together in lumps. Plastic drinks bottles can be recycled into fibres which don't clump together, which means the whole duvet can be washed and tumble dried and stay loose and airy. This led naturally on to making the duvet of an attractive fabric which didn't need a cover over it - and didn't need a contortionist to put a washed cover back on.

Many coverless duvets are made by people who previously made plain "duvets" which were in white cotton or a similar fabric and were expected to be put into a duvet cover. This is why they are called "coverless duvets" and not "quilts".

www.finebedding.co.uk/collections/night-lark-cotton-waffle-collection

I like the idea of these cotton ones but we use a super king duvet which are too big it seems - they don't even make a summer-weight one that size.

OI have just ordered one, look forward to trying it, my problem is my duvet never fits the covers, covers are too long so I end up with half the cover not filled, so frustrating. I can't wait to try this one out.

I wish they offered the delicate blue pattern one in different colours that is my favourite but I wanted a lilac/purple one so have ordered the deep purple, hope it will not make the room too dark, all the furniture are white, but here is not a lot of daylight in my bedroom, being an inside room with just to glass doors and inside glass window and of course an ensuite bathroom window. Too dark for anything else.

SusiQ8

Try temu.com they have hundreds of coverless duvets on sale at a fraction of the price of Night Lark. I’ve bought several items from temu.com (including two dresses for less than £15) and found them all perfectly okay even though they seem to be so cheap as to be unbelievable quality for the price. My other half particularly buys diy tools and says they are a quality product. The only thing I would stress is that they take at least a couple of weeks for delivery due to being a Chinese company, operating out of Shanghai.

I have only used Temu once and never again, the quality I received was less than the cheap cost of it. Not acceptable to me.

I use a duvet with cotton sheet. So the sheets get changed weekly and the duvet cover every three months.

Tbh, I can’t imagine not washing the bedding next to me only every 2-3 months as recommended😮.

I’ve just treated us to a cotton waffle summer weight Night Lark. (NotSpaghetti the reason they don’t offer a super king version is because it won’t fit in a domestic washing machine). Even here in Scotland the nights have been rather warm lately. 🥵

Whitewavemark2

I use a duvet with cotton sheet. So the sheets get changed weekly and the duvet cover every three months.

Tbh, I can’t imagine not washing the bedding next to me only every 2-3 months as recommended😮.

Surely you decide how often you want to wash your duvet, the rest is just a recommendation. Each to their own as they say.
I only change my current duvet cover fortnightly because I find it so hard to manage. This will be just wonderful for me. I shall probably wash it fortnightly too if I feel the need, perhaps more in the summer than in the winter. I wear pyjamas and always socks and cotton gloves as my extremities freeze due to Raynaud's, none of me touches my bedclothes at any time. I may be different for couples and people who sleep starkers.

NotSpaghetti

www.finebedding.co.uk/collections/night-lark-cotton-waffle-collection

I like the idea of these cotton ones but we use a super king duvet which are too big it seems - they don't even make a summer-weight one that size.

You could use two singles?

Try Lidl in Summer. You have to be there when they have them on offer, but even the kingsize I buy are inexpensive £10-£12 and they wash well. They’re just plain white, which is fine for us. I wash them as often as I’d wash my sheets.
NB because our dog likes to jump on the bed, I put a flat sheet on top. I did think it wouldn’t matter since I was washing the duvet but since she goes for a run round the garden last thing at night her feet are often grimy and I don’t like how the duvet looks.

SueDonim - yes I read that on the website. I am amazed that there is enough movement in a washer drum to wash even a single really!

Elegran - I really don't think I fancy two singles - though I can see this is an idea which will suit some.

I have a super king bed do you think the duvet would fit in the washing machine.?

Not a super-king sized one Coops74 - too big.
Elegran suggested two singles.

kittylester

Do they 'settle' around you like feather and down ones do or do they just settle on top of you like most synthetic ones?

Yes .... they definitely settle round you.

Coops74

I have a super king bed do you think the duvet would fit in the washing machine.?

The website tells you the washing machine capacity needed for each size of quilt. I have super king bed with 2 singles.

I’m with Whitewave, which is why we have a top sheet, washed frequently, whilst the bed cover gets washed much less often.

Night Lark has a super king duvet but only in the lower tog.

Whitewavemark2

I use a duvet with cotton sheet. So the sheets get changed weekly and the duvet cover every three months.

Tbh, I can’t imagine not washing the bedding next to me only every 2-3 months as recommended😮.

The recommended time to wash is every 2-3 weeks not months, and they wash and dry so easily it's not a chore at all.

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I have mentioned Lidl washable duvets before. They’re in at our Lidl again.