How Should Goose Down Be Selected?

Apr 22, 2022

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The goose down quilt is a truly irresistible bedding item, and as one of the most important sleep companions, it can help you "forget about it" when you fall asleep. It's soft, warm and breathable, and it gives us the perfect sleep experience.

So what should we pay attention to in the shopping process? How exactly should goose down be selected? In a word: carefully look at the parameters before buying indicators, after buying more experience to see the physical performance. This article is divided into two parts, first explain in detail about the knowledge to understand before buying popular science, and then take the home of the existing duvet as an example of physical evaluation, to give you a more intuitive understanding.

NO.1 Parameters to understand before purchase indicators

1. Goose down is the core of the goose down quilt

(1) Goose down fluffy

Goose down plumpness is a very, very key index to buy goose down quilt! The so-called puff is often seen as 600D, 800D, refers to the volume of an ounce of goose down stretched. The higher the index is, the better the quality is, the greater the warmth keeping ability and comfort are, and the longer the service life is. Chinese goose down is about 500, imported in 600-800, can reach 800+ is basically a star, of course, there are higher Siberian goose down, the price is too expensive we will not discuss. For daily use, 700+ quilts can be used for more than 15 years, 800+ quilts can cover almost a lifetime. There is another point to pay attention to, when buying goose down must be clear origin. To buy goose down pillow experience, Chinese goose down is generally selected in the extremely cold area of the northeast goose and anhui west goose, details page sometimes did not mark the origin, buy people only look at the parameters marked on the fluffy degree to buy. After receiving the goods and marked the same quality of the imported goose down comparison test, the gap is quite large.

(2) Goose down content

Down filling more than 50% can be called a down quilt, more than 80% can have good warmth. No matter how fluffy, if only a small amount of filling is not up to a good duvet standard. Take a duvet as an example, the parameter clearly marked the filling amount of 1300g, very suitable for winter room temperature of 10-18 degrees, enough to keep warm.

(3) Filling uniformity

This is about to see the test after coming to hand actually, can backlight looks, good eiderdown is filled down quantity between each grid is even full. And after pressing the rebound is very good, only such cover on the body will be elastic and soft. Some quilts with goose down of poor quality or mixed with other textile materials will not rise back up for a long time after pressing.

2. The fabric is goose down quilt maintenance

(1) Number of fabrics

The number of fabrics is really important, the owner of this building in the last article to give you popular science bed products four sets of purchase strategy said in detail, pillows and quilts are also applicable. Alleged good horse matchs good saddle, had good eiderdown core to make bottom, what should consider next is sewn craft and fabrics. High count and high density fabric can effectively prevent running down, 60 is the basis, 100 up the experience is very good, fine yarn, visible vertical texture. In a word: the higher the number of fiber density, the better the performance.

(2) softness

Softness mainly depends on what fabric, commonly used as a down quilt is pure cotton fabric, soft and elastic, warm and breathable. Pure cotton is divided into 39, mainly related to cotton origin, the quality of fabric made of cotton of different origin is different. China Xinjiang long staple cotton is pretty good, a bit more high-end is Egypt long staple cotton, namely satin fabrics, no matter feel or absorb wet air sex is star class.

(3) Learn to see the water label

Good duvets will apply for some international standard quality certification, once passed, the details will be marked on the page, quilt wash label will also make the corresponding identification. There is no special statement, there must be no certification, we buy carefully look.