What is the appropriate care for down- and feather-filled duvets and pillows?
It is neither difficult nor expensive to care for your top-quality down- and- feather-filled duvets or pillows. Simple measures are sufficient to maintain the quality of your valuable bedding products for a long time span.
- Fluff up your down- and-feather-filled duvet every day.
Hence the countless air-filled pockets reshape which is an essential requirement for the excellent climate regulation in down-and-feather-filled duvets.
- Air your down- and-feather-filled duvet or pillow regularly.
Through daily airing the perspiration absorbed during the sleep is eliminated and the remaining humidity is reduced.
When it is dry outside, duvets and pillows are perfectly suitable to be aired on the balcony or at the open window for one or two hours.
When the air is quite humid, the humidity built up during the sleep cannot decrease. Therefore bedding products should not be exposed to mist or rain.
Down-and-feather-filled duvets may neither be exposed to the blazing sun. Otherwise they will soon parch and get porous and the shell will be damaged through UV light as well. In winter bedding articles should not be dried at the heating and get too hot.
Persons suffering from an allergy to pollen should choose pollen-free days to air their bedding articles at the open window.
- Neither beat your down-and-feather-filled duvet nor use a vacuum-cleaner.
Beating and vacuum-cleaning will do harm to the duvets and pillows.
If you beat the duvets or pillows, the structure of the ticking threads will be loosened or even be destroyed. Furthermore, feather quills might burst, the marrow pulls out into the bed and turns into dust there.
If down- and- feather- filled duvets and pillows are vacuum-cleaned, the fine pores of the ticking will be dilated and the fabric will be loosened. The pull of the vacuum-cleaner might even extract single down and feathers from the filling.
- Occasionally treat the duvet or pillow with a soft brush.
Thus, small quantities of dust are removed which might have accumulated at the seams etc. The structure of the ticking is so smooth so that dust can hardly adhere to the outer surface.