Bedding Buying Guide

Choosing Bedlinen

At murmur we believe in creating everyday moments that matter and consider the hours in which we sleep no different. We have collated the perfect menu of products to help you rest easy night after night, all of which can be found here in our bedding buying guide.

SIZE GUIDE

First things first choose your bedding in relation to the size of your bed

BEDDING SIZES

  • Single
  • DOUBLE
  • KING
  • SUPER-KING
  1. MATTRESS 90cm x 190cm
  2. BED135cm x 150cm
  3. DUVET/COVER140cm x 200cm
  4. FLAT SHEET180cm x 260cm
  5. FITTED SHEET90cm x 190cm
  6. FITTED SHEET DEPTH28cm / 34cm / 36cm *Depth dependant on brand
  1. MATTRESS135cm x 190cm
  2. BED200cm x 200cm
  3. DUVET/COVER200cm x 200cm
  4. FLAT SHEET230cm x 260cm
  5. FITTED SHEET135cm x 190cm
  6. FITTED SHEET DEPTH28cm / 34cm / 36cm *Depth dependant on brand
  1. MATTRESS150cm x 200cm
  2. BED230cm x 220cm
  3. DUVET/COVER230cm x 220cm
  4. FLAT SHEET275cm x 275cm
  5. FITTED SHEET150cm x 200cm
  6. FITTED SHEET DEPTH28cm / 34cm / 36cm *Depth dependant on brand
  1. MATTRESS180cm x 200cm
  2. BED260cm x 220cm
  3. DUVET/COVER260cm x 220cm
  4. FLAT SHEET275cm x 305cm
  5. FITTED SHEET183cm x 200cm
  6. FITTED SHEET DEPTH28cm / 34cm / 36cm *Depth dependant on brand

PILLOW SIZES

  • STANDARD
  • SQUARE
  1. PILLOW INNER74cm x 48cm
  2. STANDARD PILLOWCASE74cm x 48cm
  3. OXFORD PILLOWCASE74cm x 48cm + 5cm Border
  1. PILLOW INNER65cm x 65cm
  2. STANDARD PILLOWCASEN/A
  3. OXFORD PILLOWCASE65cm x 65cm + 5cm Border

Tog Explained

The temperature of your bed can make or break a good nights sleep. To make sure your duvet matches the season have a look at the tog rating. A duvet with a higher tog traps in more warm air

The lighter the tog, the cooler the duvet. This rating is ideal for hot summer nights and warmer climates

A medium tog will give you a good temperature balance all year round, especially if you like keeping the heat on during colder months

The perfect choice for cold winter nights

Duvet Types

Whether you prefer a natural or synthetic filling let us guide you in making the right choice for a perfect nights sleep

Synthetic Filled Duvets

Temperature Regulating

  • Filled with Hollowfibre
  • 100% cotton casing with temperature regulating material
  • Lightweight & soft
  • Available in 10.5 tog or 13.5 tog

Feels Like Down

  • Filled with Airblend
  • Natural feel duvet encased in 100% cotton, 230 thread count cover with piped edge detailing
  • Lightweight, soft & warm
  • Naturally dust mite resistant
  • Perfect for allergy sufferers
  • Available in 4.5 tog, 10.5 tog or 13.5 tog

Natural Filled Duvets

Superior Feather

  • Filled with 85% Duck Feather, 15% Duck Down encased in a 100% cotton cover.
  • 230 thread count down proof casing with piped edging
  • Biome anti-allergy finish
  • Clever internal box construction for optimal thermal efficiency
  • Nomite finish allows people with dust mite allergies to enjoy natural bedding
  • Available in 10.5 tog or 13.5 tog

Premium Down Duvet

  • Filled with 80% Duck Down, 20% Duck Feather encased in a 100% cotton cover.
  • 230 thread count down proof casing with piped edging
  • Light weight, beautiful drape
  • Clever internal box construction for optimal thermal efficiency
  • Naturally insulating and soft
  • Nomite finish allows people with dust mite allergies to enjoy natural bedding
  • Feather and down are sustainably sourced, by products of the food industry
  • Available in 4.5 tog, 10.5 tog or 13.5 tog

Pillow Types

Wake refreshed with our menu of perfectly developed pillows in a choice of natural or synthetic fillings depending on your preferred requirements

Synthetic Filled Pillows

Feels Like Down

Standard Pillow Pair, King Pillow, Square Pillow

  • Filled with luxurious polyester microfibre which offers the luxury of a natural pillow
  • Encased in a smooth, breathable 230 thread count 100% cotton casing with piped edging
  • Naturally dust mite resistant
  • Medium firmness to support your head and neck perfectly

Temperature Regulating

Standard Pillow Pair

  • Filled with cluster fibre which offers medium support and recovers well after use
  • Smooth, breathable 100% cotton casing with temperature regulating technology to balance body temperature throughout the night
  • Medium firmness to support your head and neck perfectly

Luxurious Sleep

Standard Pillow Pair

  • Filled with sumptuously soft and fluffy polyester microfibre
  • Silky soft blown microfibre is surrounded by a 300 thread count cotton dobby spot cover and finished with a delicate cotton piped trim
  • Medium firmness to support your head and neck perfectly

Natural Filled Pillows

Premium Down

Surround Pillow

  • Filling 80% duck down & 20% duck feather with a 100% duck feather core
  • Luxurious 230 thread count 100% cotton casing with a piped edge
  • Filled to a medium firmness, this pillow is surrounded by high down content which is soft, yet supportive allowing a restful night's sleep
  • Down proof casing to stop feathers escaping
  • Nomite finish allows people with dust mite allergies to enjoy natural bedding
  • The Feather & Down in this product are sustainably sourced by-products of the food industry

Superior Feather & Down

Standard Pillow Pair, King Pillow, Square Pillow

  • Filling 85% duck feather, 15% duck down
  • Luxurious 230 thread count 100% cotton casing with a piped edge
  • Biome anti-allergy finish
  • Filled to a medium firmness, this pillow is soft, yet supportive allowing a restful night's sleep
  • Nomite finish allows people with dust mite allergies to enjoy natural bedding
  • The Feather & Down in this product are sustainably sourced by-products of the food industry

Fabric & Weave Types

Your bedlinen fabric choice and level of comfort go hand in hand. Let us help you discover all the various fabric and weave options available to ensure you shop the ideal composition to suit your needs.

Fabric Types

100% Pure Cotton

The most popular natural fibre, cotton is extremely comfortable and lightweight. Naturally breathable and hypoallergenic with low thermal conductivity making it ideal for summer and winter bedding.

Egyptian Cotton

Regarded as one of the best quality cottons in the world, Egyptian cotton is said to be softer than any other fabric. When you spend that little bit extra, you can expect luxurious comfort wash after wash with minimal ironing. It’s lightweight, breathable and keeps you warm in the winter and cool in summer.

Brushed Cotton

Made from 100% cotton, this fabric undergoes a finishing process to raise the surface fibres. This process lifts the cotton pile and cause fibres to fluff up making it super comfortable and soft to the touch.

Poly Cotton

Just as the name suggests, Poly Cotton is made from a blend of cotton and polyester fibres. The combination of the two materials gives it durability while keeping it lightweight

Linen

Linen is the kind of fabric that lives with you. It is super strong and very long lasting and the more you wash it, the softer it gets. Plus, it’s cool to the touch and it keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer. It’s an investment worth making for sheets you will really love.

Weave Types

Cotton Percale

Made with 100% high quality combed cotton, this weave is ultra smooth with a medium weight and washes extremely well. To qualify as a Percale, the thread count must be at least 180 count.

Jacquard

The unique and distinctive Jacquard fabric is woven on a specialist jacquard loom to reveal a raised(shiny) and flat(matte) contrast in design. The elegant fabric is long lasting and durable

Percale

This closely woven, plain weave fabric is available in cotton and poly blends. This type of weave may feel slightly textured to sleep on.

Sateen

This luxurious fabric is made from combed cotton and woven with one vertical thread per four horizontal threads. This intricate process gives Sateen a feel that resembles satin or silk - beautiful to sleep under.

Flannel & Flannelette

Made from a range of fibres including cotton, nylon and polyester flannel is woven and then brushed on both sides. This process makes it super soft to the touch and allows it to retain heat, making it ideal for winter bedding.
Flannelette is a light to medium cotton fabric and is made in the same way as flannel - the only difference is that it's only brushed on one side

Thread Count

You'll hear plenty of people say, 'The higher the thread count, the better the quality', but this isn't always a good gauge of comfort

To put it simply, the thread count is the measure of how many threads are used per square inch of fabric. So, a higher thread count should be seen not as an indicator of quality, but more of a guide on how tightly the fabric has been woven and therefore how the fabric is going to feel against your skin.

The threads within a material run in two different directions - the warp (length) and the weft (width).

Different fabrics need different thread counts to achieve their desired finish. For example, linen is a high quality fabric but when it is woven closer it can have a thread count as low as 50.

Our best advice is to consider a thread count per fabric, not per thread count measure. If the sheets feel good to you, this is a better measure than any!