Shell material: 400 thread count poly-cotton blend Fill material: 50% down fiber, 25% down, 15% feather fiber, 10% feathers ...

Cotton sateen is denser and smoother, with a thread count somewhere between 250 and 400. The bottom line: Unless you know what you’re looking for, thread counts are mostly a meaningless ...

You might think a higher thread count means higher-quality sheets, but manufacturers have tricky ways of manipulating that number. They can use low-grade cotton that's thin when spun.

A thread count does exactly what it says—it tots up the number of threads in a square inch (or 10cm2 in many metric countries, about 60% more), and thus measures how fine a fabric is and how ...