A recent Restoration Hardware "Home" catalogue contains an important statement: "Not all basics are created equal." That statement underlines the quality of luxury bedding. The wise homemaker shops for such luxury bed linens, when she needs to cover a goose down mattress pad and a pair of goose down pillows.
The same catalogue pictures luxury bedding sets that were designed by the finest Italian ateliers. Readers of that catalogue can learn how to obtain either sateen or percale, hand finished bedding. Both types of expertly crafted bedding sets offer linens in a whole range of colors.
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The sateen and percale sets come with the same group of color choices. Linens in a different set, that categorized as diamond Maltese bedding, come with a few different colors. Here the butter colored threads are replaced with goldenrod linens. The light colored ash linens have given way to darker graphite bedding; and the pale sky colored linens have yielded to the darker, marine colored sheets and pillowcases.
The Italian Hotel Satin Stitch luxury bedding sets, details of which can be found in the Restoration Hardware catalogue, have mostly white threads. However, they do feature striking examples of satin stitch craftsmanship. Those examples highlight the artistry of this luxurious bedding.
According to the information in the Restoration Hardware catalogue, these examples of top quality bedding can be found in the most discriminating hotels. If used in the home, the same linens can be customized, by the addition of a set of monograms. Each of those monograms can take one of four different shapes--script, cube, block and deco.
A special feature of this hotel ready bedding is its smooth finish. That finish manages to become softer, each time that the linens endure yet another washing. Meanwhile, the colors present in any decorative stitching remain bright and clear. Together, those two characteristics produce linens of an undoubted quality.