A simple thing as making and using bed pillow covers also needs great care, knowledge, and experience. Simply buying what pleases the eye may not be good from the point of view of fitment, maintenance, comfort, and life. There are many important points that you need to consider before you plan making and using bed pillow covers.
When you are buying, choosing, or making covers for bed pillows filled with cotton the proper fitment of the pillow covers needs to be first taken into consideration. Custom tailored bed pillow covers are therefore almost always better than readymade bed pillow covers. The reason is that readymade pillow covers, although they may have beautifully embroidered designs on them, are not conducive towards proper fitment.
Bed pillows by the very dint of their being stuffed with cotton cannot ensure their having exactly the same size and standard shape even in respect of all pieces roughly of the same size and shape. Because of this, you will find that using a specific standard bed pillow size as a base to manufacture several pillow covers of standard size, does not properly meet with the requirement of specific fitment.
So, it is better to carry each pillow cover to the shop and get a pillow cover specifically tailored to fit them one by one. Another thing that you need to consider after buying cotton cloth for pillow covers is that you must always first wash the cloth and dry it before you give the cloth for tailoring the pillow covers out of it. See, if you do not wash the cloth and give it as such for tailoring, what may happen is that the pillow cover may shrink on the first wash and may no longer fit the pillow thereafter.
Another thing to do after each specific pillow cover has been tailored for its own specific pillow is to mark both the cover and the pillow with the same but unique symbol in comparison with other pillow-cover sets. This will help you fit and adorn each specific cover on to its own specific pillow after each washing of the dirty pillow covers in the washing machine in your home.
The feel and comfort that the covered bed pillow provides to you is of paramount importance as you use it especially to get an undisturbed good sleep every night. Some embroidered bed pillow covers may look beautiful, but may not be very comforting against your cheeks while you sleep.
Another important point to consider while buying cotton cloth for bed pillow covers is to go in for material that retains its original hue and color even after many washes. Otherwise, the faded pillow covers will not look as good as they did while they had been new. Another thing to do is to always dry your bright bed pillow covers in the shade after every wash. Under the hot Sun, the bright color on cloth has a tendency towards fading.
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