Manufacturing and Weight

 

Each duvet is hand made by a team of trained ladies at our factory in Hoedspruit, South Africa.

 

 

 

Only the best quality, long-fibered mulberry silk is used in the making of our duvets. 

During manufacturing, the silk is stretched and pulled the length and width of the duvet size being made. This is a time consuming process and requires 4 ladies to stretch the silk. The silk is able to stretch due to its strength, elasticity and length (up to 1.8 km thread per each cocoon). The purpose of stretching the silk is to create the smooth batting that goes into your duvet. During the process of stretching the silk is also fluffed, filling the fibers with air, so creating the light, cloud like appearance and feel of the batting.

Once the silk is fluffed, it is laid length ways on top of a 100% pure cotton percale cover. The second layer is laid cross ways on top of the first, so creating the grid. This is repeated according to the thickness required per duvet.

Once complete the silk is covered with the top piece of cotton percale. The covers are held in position with cotton ties that help keep the loft within the duvet and prevent the silk from slipping. Finally the duvet is double stitched around the seams so increasing the strength and durability of the duvet. Our duvets are then quality checked before being rolled and packed into carry bags. These bags are useful for protecting ones duvet when being stored or transported or make great laundry bags when travelling.

 

Should you ever visit Hoedspruit, please feel free to come and visit our factory and showroom, where we will give you a personalized tour.

To view our manufacturing movie – click here

Weights

When comparing silk duvet prices, one needs to take the actual silk weight into consideration as there is no standardization between duvet manufacturers.

To get the approximate total weight of a duvet, you must add the silk weight to the cotton weight listed in the table below.

DUVET SIZES & WEIGHTS

Silk Filled Duvets

Summer
(1 Layer)
Silk

Spring
(2 Layer)
Silk

Autumn
(3 Layer)
Silk

Winter
(4 Layer)
Silk

Cotton
Casing
Weight

Cot Size (80x100cm)

1 x 105g
105g

2 x 105g
210g

3 x 105g
315g

4 x 105g
420g

280g

Single (130x200cm)

1 x 312g
312g

2 x 312g
624g

3 x 312g
936g

4 x 312g
1248g

736g

¾ (150x200cm)

1 x 360g
360g

2 x 360g
720g

3 x 360g
1080g

4 x 360g
1440g

810g

Double (200x200cm)

1 x 480g
480g

2 x 480g
960g

3 x 480g
1440g

4 x 480g
1920g

1060g

Queen (200x230cm)

1 x 552g
552g

2 x 552g
1104g

3 x 552g
1656g

4 x 552g
2208g

1196g

King (220x230cm)

1 x 607g
607g

2 x 607g
1214g

3 x 607g
1821g

4 x 607g
2428g

1326g

Extra Length (230x260cm)

1 x 686g
686g

2 x 686g
1372g

3 x 686g
2058g

4 x 686g
2744g

1548g