Cotton bedding and good quality towels

hollydays

At this time of year I look to buy some good quality pure white cotton Bedding ( acquired some used white company bedding now am spoiled. )
Also a few charcoal grey towels . Ideas?

sarah1972

http://www.soakandsleep.com/supreme-1000tc-genuisa.html

Towels, I love BHS Ultimate ones http://www.bhs.co.uk/en/bhuk/category/home-lighting-furniture-2565866/towels-1020730#pageSize=40&catalogId=34096&viewAllFlag=false&sort_field=Relevance&langId=-1&storeId=13077&categoryId=471210&pageNum=1&No=0&N=10266+11209&Nrpp=40&siteId=%2F13077&catId=471210&thirdCategoryId=2171492&beginIndex=1&endIndex=null&pageFlag=s_20&parent_categoryId=471111

Lisbon

hollydays wrote: »

At this time of year I look to buy some good quality pure white cotton Bedding ( acquired some used white company bedding now am spoiled. )
Also a few charcoal grey towels . Ideas?

Try John Lewis - although possibly wait until just after Christmas to see what's in their clearance.

theonlywayisup

Yes, John Lewis. Their sale will start 5pm on Christmas Eve.

theonlywayisup

I have these and they are superb. I have the steel.

http://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-egyptian-cotton-towels/p161111?colour=New%20Steel

Anne_Marie_2

Have a look at https://www.justlinen.co.uk and http://www.bedeckhome.com/

Both have got sales on just now.

Have used both in the past to get good quality cotton sheets and
am sure the Christie towels I bought were from Justlinen. Can't fault either of the websites, and both sheets and towels are still excellent. Bought them before we moved to Cyprus, so that's around 6 years ago now.

http://www.justlinen.co.uk/justlinen/christy-tribeca-steel.asp

Cisco001

bedding - recommend looking for 400TC or over
Towel - recommend looking for egyptian cotton.
I usually go to TKmaxx or home sense to start with.

LadyDee

Christy is now an Indian company, and sadly the quality of their towels is nothing like it was. I have Christy towels that belonged to my mother (decades old) and still in far better condition than those I bought a couple of years ago.

It is obvious that the newer ones are much thinner, the colours are faded and I'll be replacing these before my mother's.

sarah1972

LadyDee wrote: »

Christy is now an Indian company, and sadly the quality of their towels is nothing like it was. I have Christy towels that belonged to my mother (decades old) and still in far better condition than those I bought a couple of years ago.

It is obvious that the newer ones are much thinner, the colours are faded and I'll be replacing these before my mother's.

I agree, Christy towels are very poor now.

benjus

Anne_Marie wrote: »

Have a look at https://www.justlinen.co.uk and http://www.bedeckhome.com/

Both have got sales on just now.

Have used both in the past to get good quality cotton sheets and
am sure the Christie towels I bought were from Justlinen. Can't fault either of the websites, and both sheets and towels are still excellent. Bought them before we moved to Cyprus, so that's around 6 years ago now.

http://www.justlinen.co.uk/justlinen/christy-tribeca-steel.asp

That site is spectacularly badly named as I can't find a single product on there made of linen. It all seems to be cotton or polycotton. I like linen bedding.

benjus

Cisco001 wrote: »

bedding - recommend looking for 400TC or over

I don't think thread count is a great indicator of quality. It's like a few years ago when people chose a digital camera based purely on how many megapixels it had - so the manufacturers responded by making cameras with horrible lenses etc that took awful photos, but with loads of megapixels so that people would buy them.

Best thing to do IMO is look at and feel a range of different fabrics, get an idea for what you get for your money, and choose one that you like from those in your budget. And don't assume that a sheet from John Lewis and a sheet from some random website will be the same quality just because it has the same thread count.