Cushy Life

This Eiderdown Duvet covered in a silk ticking and is filled with the rare down of the Icelandic Eider Duck.  The Eider Duck lines its nest with the ultrasoft down from their breasts to protect their eggs and to keep them warm.  Because the nests are situated on the rockey coast where winds tend to howl the down has these incredible "hooks" that allow the down to cling to itself and not get blown out of the nest.  What results is an incredible quality of down that provides incredible warmth.  The down is handpicked from the nest of the ducks that line the blustery shores of Iceland and northern Canada.  Other down is actually harvested from the birds themselves while Eiderdown is only picked from the nests.  Only 30% of the down that lines the nest is actually harvested and the birds are undisturbed because of this.  As you can imagine, by handpicking the down from the nests, this causes the down to be extremely rare.  Your Eiderdown duvet is a real luxury.

You have chosen an Eiderdown Duvet for a warm sleeper.  As a warm sleeper you may be described as a little furnace by those you cuddle up with.  You may even sleep in a warm room or be in a warm climate.  The Ultralight Eider Down Duvet you are reading about here is a wonderful choice for you.  The Eiderdown also has the largest comfort range being warmer in colder climates and cooler in warmer climates.  Of all the down you can choose this is the best for a warm sleeper.

Zurguard Down Processing System for Cleanliness

 Cleaned with our Zurguard cleaning process this down is guaranteed to be Hypoallergenic and will not aggravate any allergies you may think you have to down.  In the Zurguard Down Processing System the down is sanitized which eliminates bacteria.  A special Ozone treatment is the final part of the cleaning process so that the Eiderdown has a lifetime of freshness.  This process ensures that your Eiderdown is Hypoallergenic and will eliminate any odors that would normally come from the Eider Duck.

The Zurguard cleaning process treats down in a more careful and gentle manner.  While other cleaning processes may use heat that can overdry and even burn the down causing it to be brittle the Zurguard Down Processing System ensures that your Eiderdown fibers are not damaged and never overdried.  This ensures that  the natural qualities of the down that keep you warm are not destroyed but in fact preserved.

The Zurguard system does not artificially enhance the loft of your down.  Some cleaning processes that are used by big box stores and lesser down duvet manufacturers will actually artificially boost the loft of your down.  So while you think you may be buying a 700 loft duvet, over time that down will actually lose its loft.  In a year or two that down will actually become cold and you will want a new duvet.  With our Eiderdown Duvets you will never have that problem.  Our Eiderdown Duvet loft is 750 but because of the insulating qualities of the Eiderdown it actually tests out at a remarkable 850-900 loft.

And as is standard with all of our duvets the Zurguard Down Processing System exceeds all government standards for purity and cleanliness.  Ensuring you have a wonderful down cloud inside your duvet.  This is true luxury.

The Casing or "Ticking" That Keeps The Down In Place

We import from Germany a 100% Egyptian Cotton that is woven especially for Eiderdown.  At 360 threads per inch the thread count is fantastic and no downproof fabric is lighter.  When this fabric is woven at the mill a process called "callendering" squeezes the threads together so that down will not escape which is especially noticeable when you go to change your duvet cover.

The fabric is handsewn in Canada in a sealed baffle box design.  I must tell you that our sealed baffle box is truly the best in the industry.  Not only does our down not move from one baffle to the other, but the boxes have panels sewn on all sides so that the down utilzes it's full loft.  Imagine a box that you pour down into as opposed to a pillow.  In a box you have an even layer of down throughout.  In a pillow configuration you would have more down in the middle and less on all sides.  Lesser companies have baffles on two sides and then "sew through" the tops and the bottoms.  A sewn through baffle box means that the top layer of ticking and the bottom layer of ticking are sewn together.  This creates cold zones and lesser duvets are sewn like this.  It is cheaper to do and less expensive for the manufacturer.  However, you end up with a cold zone where the stiching is thus wasting much of your money having spent it on high quality down.

Our down duvet construction ensures that the extra money you spend on higher quality down is well spent.  Our duvets maximizes the full potential of higher lofted down so you can sleep under a warm layer of high quality down.

The casing is piped along the edges with a beautuful white satin cording

We do our best to list all of the benefits of your Eiderdown Duvet for Warm Sleepers here.  However, if there is a question we have not answered for you please don't hesitate to contact us.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Edwards - Olympian and Owner of The Cushy Life

• This Eiderdown Silk Covered Light Weight Super King Duvet for Normal Sleepers is 114"x98"
• There is 36 ounces of down in your duvet.
• The baffle boxes are 8"x6" in dimension.
• The thread count on the casing is 360tc.
• The fabric for the casing is made in Germany.
• The fabric weighs 2.2 ounces per square yard.
• The Eiderdown tests at 700 loft however its insulating qualities set it at 850-900 loft.
• The Eiderdown is cleaned with the Zurguard Down Processing System and is guaranteed hypoallergenic.
• The Duvet is sewn in Canada.