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Touched by Nature. Tribeca Living. Trident Group. Truly Calm. Truly Soft. Utica Home. Yorkshire Home. Contains Recycled Content. Fair Trade Certified. Global Organic Textile Standard Certified. Sateen sheets are more silky than percale, with a heavier drape. They are warmer than percale sheets, though, so if you overheat, they may not be for you.
Bean sheets. The colors and prints are also more modern. Unlike the L. Bean sheets, the Riley sheet set comes in California king and twin XL sizes. In appearance and comfort, these sheets are hard to distinguish from the Wrinkle Guard sateen sheets, but after several washes they kept their ultrasoft feel a little better, wrinkled even less, and felt more lightweight.
They are available in California king as well as twin XL. Cuddledown is our only pick to offer an unconditional guarantee —you can return the sheets at any time. High quality at a fantastic price. I also wrote our pieces on luxury sheets , summer sheets , flannel sheets , and dorm sheets , as well as our guides to duvet covers , blankets , throws , pillows , robes , and pajamas.
My job is to find the best bedding out there, but my passion is sleep and finding how to help you get the comfiest, most restful night of it. Most cotton sheets are either percale or sateen. The different weaves affect the weight and feel of the fabric; choosing between them is a personal preference.
Percale sheets are lightweight and breathable, so we love them for hot sleepers and hot weather. The lattice weave gives them texture and less of a smooth glide than sateen. They feel crisp and cool on the skin—more like a starched shirt than a drapey top. The tight weave also leaves less room to squeeze in extra threads, which means they generally have lower thread counts and weigh less than sateen, too.
Sateen sheets are luxuriously smooth and drape over the body. They give a cozy, decadent feeling when you slide under the covers. The long floats in the looser weave allow more light to bounce off them, which adds luster to the cotton fabric. It also makes them vulnerable to snags, so to compensate, manufacturers pack more threads into each square inch.
This makes the sheets stronger and smoother than percale but also heavier and warmer. Made from high-quality cotton: Long-staple cotton fibers make the smoothest, softest, and strongest sheets—most of our picks are long-staple.
We go into more depth on types of cotton in our post on whether Egyptian-cotton sheets are worth springing for. Quality look and feel: We looked for sheets that feel smooth and soft on the skin, especially after several washes, and that show no signs of pilling, loose threads, shoddy seams, or holes. Reasonable thread count: We focused on percale sets with thread counts between and and sateen sets between and , our expert-recommended rule of thumb.
Higher thread counts we did consider some are often a marketing ploy and create a heavier, hotter sheet. We go into more detail in our piece on what makes a good thread count for sheets. A wide choice of colors and prints: We only tested white sheets to keep things consistent across the many brands, but we looked for sheets that come in a variety of colors, and we love when brands offer some prints.
Strong owner reviews: We tried to find sheets with a long history of good reviews, but we also considered newer startup brands that may have few or no reviews yet. We tested 17 sets at once for our update, including retests of our previous picks. With every set considered, I measured the sheets out of the packaging, rubbed the fabric against my cheek a common test for determining fabric softness and between my fingers, washed and dried every set once, and measured again to determine shrinkage. Then my husband and I he prefers sateen, I prefer percale spent a night or two sleeping on each set, noting how well the sheets fit the bed a inch-deep king-size Leesa mattress , which ones were breathable, and which were softest on the skin.
In our tests, I eliminated eight sets after this first sleep round. Then I washed and dried the remaining nine sets twice more, again checking construction and softness. Most of our previous picks made it through to this final round of testing. We compared the older sets of our picks against the newer sets. I slept on the remaining sets again to finalize our picks. Bean Thread-Count Pima Cotton Percale Sheet Set can: top-notch construction on crisp, cool cotton sheeting that just gets better with age.
What sets the L. They shrink about half as much as their closest competition Snowe and Casper but a little bit more than Brooklinen and Riley sheets. The fabric is a little thicker than most of the sheets we tried, which we think makes them more durable over time.
That heft also makes the L. Some of our staffers have had the Bean sheets for three or four years with no signs of wear or damage. If they do shrink, tear, or unravel, L. The cotton fibers in the L. Bean sheets absorbed well, keeping moisture off the skin and giving the sheets the classic cool feeling that percale is known for. Bean sheets softened with more washes and became less prone to wrinkles; they do still wrinkle, though—all percale sheets do.
Bean sheets maintain their durability over years of use and just get better the more you wash them. Similar to other picks on our list, they come in both solid colors and prints. Bean user reviews and comments on this guide that these sheets are either too soft or too rough. Honestly, this is a matter of personal preference.
The sheets come out of the bag feeling crisp, but they do break in and get softer over time. A few years ago, we even purchased a set from a reader to compare to our test set—they performed equally well.
We suspect that those who find these rough might do better with a different style of sheet. If you like the crips feel of percale, these are great.
If you like silkier sheets, you may prefer sateen or one of the smoother percales from our notable competition. If you do receive a set from L. Also, the L. Bean still honored its return policy, sending her another set. Their solid stitching has held up beautifully through many washes. Compared to wrinklier percales we tested from Snowe and Huckberry, these sheets are also a cinch to maintain.
Though some wrinkles are inevitable for any sheet, these sheets remain relatively wrinkle-free if you fold them or put them on the bed promptly after drying. Bean and Riley. In January we tested a new set under the Wrinkle Guard label and found them just as sumptuous.
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