Comfortable All Year Around

• Silk breathes better than down, wicking moisture away from your body. Its unique thermal properties allow it to adjust to your body temperature, adding a perfect layer of warmth in all seasons.
• Silk comforters drape better than down, contouring to your body, leaving no cold spots. Down runs from you, but silk comes to you.
• White Loft silk-filled comforters give you the warmth of down at a fraction of the price and half the weight!

100% Natural, Allergy Free

• Silk is 100% natural and hypoallergenic, making it a perfect alternative to down or wool.
• Silk fibers don’t break down the way feathers do; as down degrades, allergies often become worse.

Trouble Free

• Layered silk fiber is remarkably stable; the delicate, fluffy layers “adhere” to one another, never wandering or bunching. This means our comforters require little or no quilt stitching, giving them a billowy softness, a hallmark of every White Loft product.

For the Rest of Your Life

• Silk-filled comforters have a longer life expectancy than down comforters.
• With proper care and our exclusive comforter covers, a silk comforter can provide a LIFETIME of use.

The Facts

Comforters are filled with 100% Virgin Silk Fibers. The durable case is a thin weave of 100% cotton that allows the silk to breathe against your skin.

Our comforters are designed to fasten onto our covers so that they never shift or bunch. One edge of the comforter case is closed with overlapping fabric and buttons; you can open the comforter to feel the soft silk inside! Unlike down or other fills, layered silk fibers will never protrude or spill through the buttoned casing.

History

A Time-Tested, Natural Fabric
Silk is a protein fiber harvested from the cocoon of the silkworm caterpillar (Bombyx mori). Silkworms feed on mulberry leaves. When the silkworms are about 35 days old they are 10,000 times heavier than when they hatched. A silkworm spins approximately one mile of filament, completely enclosing itself in a cocoon. Silk batting is obtained by stretching numerous cocoons into broad, thin sheets.

Legend has it that silk was discovered in 2640 BC by the Chinese princess Hsi Ling Shi. It is said she dropped a silkworm cocoon into a cup of tea; when she removed it, it emerged as a single thread. Harvesting silk still uses this principle of softening the natural sericin adhesive in boiling water. Over 30 countries produce silk, but China produces roughly half the world's supply.

Silk fibers are the lightest of all natural fibers. Comforters made with silk are both lightweight and incredibly warm. Silk is a natural insulator and breathes very well, keeping you cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Silk fiber is lustrous, smooth, supple, lightweight, elastic, and strong. In fact, silk fiber is so resilient that it will stretch by up to 20 % without damage. Silk resists mildews, molds, and rots that attack other fibers.

White Loft comforters are made with time-honored, traditional techniques.

• The cocoons are cleaned, steamed, and submerged in boiling water to soften the natural sericin adhesive that binds the thread together.
• One by one, the cocoons are stretched by hand, first over a curved bamboo frame and then between two workers, to form large sheets of silk.
• Thousands of cocoons of silk are layered together to form a lightweight batting that will not bunch or shift.
• All comforters come in natural white. A durable zippered carrying case is included with each comforter.

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