Archive for November, 2009
Maximum loft from a well constructed feather bed
Pacific Coast Feather Company produces Luxury Baffle Box feather beds that are hyperclean. A restful night sleep is realized due to relaxed muscles and good circulation.
Baffle box construction allows for maximum comfort and loft that provides the best quality to be found in a feather bed. Your mattress is made better being supported by a good quality feather bed for your tired body at the end of a long day.
Good quality feather beds don’t need fluffing
problem that is experienced with feather beds is that feathers shift under the weight of a body, resulting in ineffectiveness. The bed must be re-fluffed occasionally to restore fluffiness and ensuring uniformity of comfort.
The design of Pacific Coast feather beds allow for maximum fluff and less feather shifting so that uniform comfort is realized night after night. A proper design allows your body to be cushioned and supported in the proper places for maximum relaxation of muscles and improved circulation.
Relaxation from stress on a feather bed
Pacific Coast Feather Company makes a feather bed that cushions pressure points to help your body relax in a higher level of comfort. At the end of a stress-filled day this feather bed will contour the shape of your body to relieve the shoulders and hips and give relaxation right where it is needed.
A special process is used to remove dirt, dust, and allergens from the feathers that leave them clean and fluffy. The fabric used is leakproof and 100% cotton that is soft and durable and ensures easy care.
Down comforters are practical in a bad economy
The holidays are upon us and Christmas gift giving will be harder than most of us have ever experienced. Practicality will be considered above luxury to make the best use of limited resources.
One gift that is practical and still luxurious is a goose down comforter. Comforters are good investments because they last for years and are natural insulators on long winter nights. Be sure to give the gift that will last this year; you will be loved for it.
Why is down soft and lofty?
Ducks and geese have soft insulating down clusters on their breasts. Down is a plume, which means that it has no hard elements such as a quill like feathers have. Down clusters contain many thousands of soft filaments that radiate out like a dandelion and form the spherical plume.
Down has a structure that is three-dimensional that gives it superior lofting and fill power. A goose down pillow is incredibly soft and luxurious because of the loft of down.
Keeping down feathers inside of your comforter
The fabric used in making bedding that contains down needs to be downproof. There are a variety of fabrics that are used in down bedding, but whichever one is used must be constructed so that the fine down fibers cannot penetrate it.
Pacific Coast Feather Company uses BarrierWeave TM technology to produce goose down comforters with fabric that achieves this. This technology produces a finer, softer, and more durable fabric that is up to three times more leakproof than the standard requirement.
Washed, dried, and sorted down and feathers
Manufacturers in the U.S. buy washed and pre-washed down product, that were sent through large washing machines that remove impurities. The fill is dried and sorted in separating machines for quality, feather size, etc.
Washed product is imported and is available for use upon receipt as soon as it arrives in the U.S. to be made into bedding products such as featherbeds or down blankets. Pre-washed down and feathers need further processing after arriving in the U.S. before it is put into a finished product available for public consumption.
Raw down needs to be washed clean
When down and feathers are purchased from farmers they are raw, which means they are unwashed. The processor will wash the down before a goose down pillow or comforter manufacturer can use it.
Many consumers are allergic to dust mites, or bacteria that are found in down and feathers in their raw state. Some manufacturers warrant their down against allergy causing organisms, which warranty will result in higher price.
The supply and demand of down
Raw down and feather supplies are like commodities that are sensitive to supply and demand. Down bedding manufacturers make up only part of the demand along with the makers of down apparel and sleeping bags.
The supply and demand is affected by the needs of consumers and manufacturers, which cannot be reliably estimated. During a downturn in an economy for example, demand for more expensive down comforters would be less, even though humans have a need to keep themselves warm, but would turn possibly to cheaper synthetic materials.
Most goose down is from the Orient
Sixty-Five percent of the down produced in the world comes from Asia and most of the rest from Eastern Europe. Farmers generally will sell birds for meat and sell the down to brokers who sell the raw material to down and feather processors worldwide.
Processors prepare the raw material for the making of down feather pillows and comforters and other products. Supplies of the goose and duck down are usually greater around the time of the Chinese New Year because of higher consumption of the birds’ meat by consumers