Why Egyptian Cotton is King


Egyptian cotton has become wildly popular for bedding in recent years. Why exactly? Does it really matter?

It was thought for ages that cotton was cotton and thread count was king when choosing quality sheets. That is no longer true. Consumer guidelines for buying bedding suggest that cotton from Egypt is superior to other cotton. Is this true and, if so, what is the big difference?

Egyptian cottons are used to create bedding of all types from sheets to pillowcases to comforters. The long staple or long fiber of Egyptian-grown cotton means that there is more continuous fiber to use when creating threads or yarns. This yarn is smaller in diameter yet stronger than other cottons. Smaller yarn means that more threads per square inch can be use to create stronger fabric which is light in weight yet breathes well.

More threads per inch mean that the thread count on the bedding label will be higher. Many buyers think that choosing high thread count sheets is the only gauge of quality. This is not true, but in the case of cotton grown in Egypt, the higher thread count means the fabric will be incredibly strong and will last for years and years. If cared for properly, Egyptian produced cotton fabric used for creating bedding products can last for decades.

The hand or feel of the sheets created from Egyptian grown cotton is a bit harder than other cottons when the bedding is new. However, with every single laundering, the cotton sheets from Egyptian fibers become softer and softer. Like a fine wine, age improves the Egyptian fiber cotton bedding and, unlike many products, you will prize your Egyptian fiber sheets of cotton more and more as they age and become soft and cuddly.

Cotton grown in the Egyptian fields will also produce less lint and therefore will not pill after repeated washings as some materials may do. At one time, the only way to obtain Egyptian fiber cotton sheets was to shop in high-end expensive stores. This is no longer true and most department stores and online bedding stores carry a selection of Egyptian produced cotton sheets and other bedding items for the buyer seeking this quality product.

King Cotton was once the name for the cotton grown in the Deep South of the United States. This cotton has much shorter fibers or staple than the Egyptian produced cotton. Egyptian fiber is now considered the king of all cottons for its durability and luxurious feel. After all, we spend almost one-third of our lives in our beds and our bedding should be comfortable and durable. Choosing the right sheets made from the king of cotton, Egyptian produced fibers, you will experience a bed that is comfortable and cozy.

A word of caution regarding bedding labels: if the package says "cotton rich" the actual amount of cotton, whether Egyptian or other cotton, is not stated and can be a very small amount. It is better to select products that state 100% cotton or, if choosing a blend fabric, that clearly state the exact proportion of cotton in the bedding. This will ensure your product composition is one that you will be pleased with.

If the package says "percale", this means that the thread count is at least 180 count. Many people believe that percale is a fabric type in its own right. This isn't the case at all; it simply means the thread count is 180 or more. Percale can be 100% cotton or a blend of cotton and other fibers!

Sferra Brothers always has a special eye for quality and their Celeste linens in 100% cotton from Egypt is no exception. These mix and match fine quality linens are created with 406 thread count. The linens are cool and crisp yet soft for luxurious comfort. White plus 10 solid colors are available. You simply can't go wrong with these machine washable luxury linens.

Matouk Classics collection includes the Lowell design. These Egyptian long fiber cotton sheets are 600 thread count for true luxury. Available in white with one inch sateen tape accents around edges of pillow cases and on sheet hem. Select choice of five solid colors for the accent. These linens are elegant enough for the finest bedrooms.

Frette's 600 thread count Royalty sheet sets come in a shade called "money green" which is actually a deep olive green. Other colors are also available. The linens are accented with a square jacquard weave around the edges for a very distinctive, classic look. If you want beauty beyond compare, these linens from Frette are for you.

Egyptian remains King of the cotton world today and will retain that crown for many years into the future.

You'll find this long staple cotton used in sheets by many different designers and can enjoy this Egyptian luxury, suitable for the kings and pharaohs in your very own home!



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Why egyptian cotton is not used to make clothes?
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I have found that egyptian cotton is just amazing for bedding. Then I thought - well, then shirt for example should be good as well. Looked in google, ebay - cannot find anything than bedding and towels made from egyptian cotton. Why only bedding?

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You need to search in finer stores which will be less than custom tailored. http://www.neimanmarcus.com/search.jhtml?N=0&Ntt=egypt ian+cotton+shirts&_requestid=9819

why egyptian????
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why the board of answer in Egypt is full with girls & women with there many questions and Were the hill the men

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Women are just better at asking and answering questions its a simple fact of nature! Men are too busy looking for their brain that traveled south a long time ago and hasn't come back from holiday. :-)

why Egyptian guys find it okay to marry non virgin western girl while refuse the Egyptian girl if she is not v?
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Why Egyptian guys find it okay to marry non virgin western(from America or Europe) girl while refuse the Egyptian girl if she is not virgin?? @ pharmacist: i never said the non virgin westerner who Egyptian guys accept to marry are raped or divorced, i wonder why didn't you figure it out by yourself? and what standards or values Egyptian guys use to marry? his Muslim Egyptian values or the western values? if he use the western with western why don't he convert to non Islam like them then??

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As Angelo said hypocrites and also many guys who marry western women are actually going for their passport so they don't care as along they get their citizenship. @Pharmacist: Why are they excused from their culture and Egyptian girls have rules.If the guy is really such a pious person then he wouldn't marry a non-virgin whether she is western. Isn't that another form of double standards? Also as if Christianity accepts non-virgins.

Why do some Egyptian statues have one hand open and the other closed?
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A friend of mine was wondering, after having gone to a museum, why some Egyptian statues have one hand open and the other closed. I challenged another friend that I could get the answer faster through Yahoo! Answers than he could through google searches. Let's see if I'm right.

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The previous responder is correct, the one hand clenched one open comes from the practice of representing people, usually men, holding a staff or scepter. It's difficult to render a staff or scepter in a free-standing 3 dimensional stone sculpture - weak points in the stone and other factors make it challenging for such pieces to remain intact. So, over time, the clenched fist became a sort of sculptural short-hand for representing a man holding a scepter. In some Egyptian sculpture, men are shown holding what looks like a scrap of cloth for the same reason.

Why Egyptian Mums hit you with anything close to their hands?
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Other than the stick and the shebsheb, there are many stuff that may have one more use other than the one you thought they were made for. That is what most of the Egyptian kids suffer from, they get hit or beaten by the closest thing their mother hand can reach. I remember getting a hit with the tv remote control, my school text book, and a clothes hanger. Tell us what was the weirdest thing you got hit with when you was a child?

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Ohemgee haha. That's so funny and so true. My mom would take her shoes off and chase me around the house haha when I was like 12 haha. I would always laugh to which would get her even more mad haha. Or whatelse, her cell phone or a book haha. Man Egyptian mothers. My mom is like a ninja though when I would laugh she would jump on tables lol. I miss those days. @Just me haha. She doesnt do it anymore though b/c im taller than her ahaha and im older now. But oh how I miss the wooden spoon haha.

Why so Egyptian men insult western women and pretend to like them?
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I am very overweight and have very palid skin because I have been ill for very long time. I go on holiday to Egypt to recuperate. But all the time Egyptian men are bothering me in the street and pretending to like me, and want to marry me, sleep with me and other inappropiate questions. Why do they insult me so much???? I am not stupid I KNOW that I am not some beautiful young girl who people fall in love with on looking. I am overweight , disabled 30 year old. Why insuate that I am a moron that will be taken advantage of for visa, or that I am a lose woman who will sleep with anything?? It makes me feel so worse when these men do this to me, like I am so ugly that I will fall for anything. Why not realise that just because a women is Western that doesn't mean that she has no self respect.

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When and why did Egyptian language die out in Egypt?
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When and why did the Egyptian language(Coptic) die out in Egypt? And did the Coptic language affect Egyptian Arabic dialect a lot?

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First Coptic is the last stage of the Egyptian language,, and it started to die out At the turn of the 8th century, Caliph Abdel al-Malik bin Marwan decreed that Arabic replace Koine Greek and Coptic as the sole administrative language, and even threaten to cut the tongues of the Egyptians who spoke than Arabic ,,the era of Mamlouks and their persecutions to the Egyptians led to the further decline of Coptic, until it completely gave way to Egyptian Arabic in the 17th century, and yes , it affected and still there lots of terms and words from the (Coptic-Egyptian language) like (spit=yetef,,, chest =3eb, 7ah from 3ah = great or the name of the donkey,,,, and most of the places and cities names,,,, @Answerers below: of course not ..The Hieroglyphic is not a language ,, it is just a script to write the ancient Egyptian language ,,, Coptic used Greek letters to do so,, The Egyptian language is classified as A STAND ALONE language from the North African afro asiatic languages family , (Not related to the Arabic which is a central Semitic language from the same large family) along with 5 others like chadic .Omatic,chushatic.....) but similar to the berber language The Arabic was not developed from the Egyptian language.at all..but from the semitic- along with the Aramaic, Hebrew....etc,,.sorry obviously what you studied is completely wrong,,, Now as an example You can write the English language with capital letters ,(like hieroglyph with the Egyptian, Small letters (like Hieratic) Continues letters ( demotic-that is in a later period ) or you can use even Morris code or the chatspeak alphabets or even Arabic chat language (to write English) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet @1967: One of my (degrees) is tour guiding diploma from faculty of tourism in 1988,,,besides , I was one of the cultural committee members of the Egyptian national cultural center when it started (Voluntarily work),,,,eh yaleit el shabab ya3od yoman... ============ @@To the unknown,, : (,,,,, of six phases of Egyptian language. i believe Hieroglyphics is the first one. ) , there is nothing called Hieroglyphic language,,, Hieroglyph is a type of writing like el naskh , rak3ah,,, hieroglyph was the script mainly on the walls, while hieratic was used on papyrus...(and later demotic) but all those scripts were used to write the same ancient Egyptian language while the Egyptian language had those phases: -Archaic Egyptian (before 2600 BC, the language of the Early Dynastic Period) -Old Egyptian (2686 BC – 2181 BC, the language of the Old Kingdom) -Middle Egyptian (2055 BC – 1650 BC, Middle Kingdom up to the Amarna Period; continued in use as a literary language into the 4th century AD) -Late Egyptian (1069 BC – 700 BC, Amarna Period through the Third Intermediate Period) -Demotic (7th century BC – 5th century AD, Late Period through Roman times) -Coptic (1st century AD – 17th century AD, early Roman times to early modern times -Arabic language pls read the top of my answer !!!! -- @@Ya Nono you may did not understand my answer> Hieroglyphy is not even a phase of the language , it is A WAY TO WRITE THE same language/ the one language which is called the Egyptian language,, like the capital letters and the small letters for the same English language again Hieroglyphy is a type of wiriting not a LANGUAGE at all. example: a boy ::::in english can be written A BOY (that is hieroglyphy as an example)-CAPITAL letters and a boy that is hierotic as an example, small letters or we write it like this بوي ,- Arabic letters for the English word the (boy is still the same of the same language English. but we used different letter system (Arabic) to write it ,,like the Coptic when the Greek letters were used to write the same Egyptian language ) I hope you understand me,,, Hieroglyph is not a language nor a phase of the language , it is a way to write the language ---- Ahamdllah now you are (fairly right) The language itself had different phases (like new expressions and words),, the coptic indeed is the last phase of this language with the influence of the greek (besides it used Greek letters) but nothing is called Hieroglyphic lang,,,it is still the same One Egyptian language refer to my answer above and read the pahses of the SAME One Egyptian language,,, BTw the hieroglyphic, hieratic, were used in the same time and also the Demotic,, according to where the writing is on,,(walls , paper by priests , or by normal people (demotic), for the same Egyptian language (so in the same time , not one after one) - --------------Conclusion: In the same time :The One and the same Egyptian language was written by Hieroglyphic (capital letters-script)on the walls, hieratic (small letters-script) on papyrus by priests, demotic, (continous letters-script) on papyrus by normal people,,,, and later with Greek letters = coptic ,(with extra Greek influence in the language itself)

What were Egyptian pryramids made of and why was this chosen?
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What materials were used to build the pyramid, and what materials are in the pyramids. Why the Egyptians chose those materials. Thanks!

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Most were constructed of limestone which is available locally,so the need for transportation down the Nile was not necessary. The blocks could be directly worked by the various trades people that lived,worked and eventually died on the Giza plateau. Others were built of sandstone. A very soft stone that required a facing.The sandstone was found at Saqqara and Giza. The limestone and sandstone were chosen purely for easy accessibility. Many pyramids had a facing of finely worked pink or white granite. A beautiful stone,and very durable, that reflected the sun as dazzling by day, and almost luminous at night. This was only found near Aswan.So it had to be cut and brought to the Nile then floated on barges almost 650 miles to Giza. Sadly, most of this facing was lost for use in other constructions beginning at the time of the Roman occupation until the 1800s when Muhammad Ali Pasha used almost all that remained for buildings in Alexandria.

why was the egyptian sphinx important to the egyptian people?
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why was the egyptian sphinx important to the egyptian people? Details please 10 points for the best answer.

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That's like asking why the staue of liberty is important to Americans? there isnt any logical reason for it other than the fact that it was a representation of their culture/ way of life (also, it was one of their gods)

Can anyone tell me why the Egyptian figures an pictures have one foot in front of the other? Please help!?
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I read somewhere a few years ago that there was a reason/meaning to why Egyptian figures had one foot in front of the other, I just cant remember what it was.

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Okay, my silly St. Patrick's Day mood caused me to first think of a field sobriety test. Then my mind immediately jumped to the song from that Christmas special..."Put one foot in front of the other...and soon you'll be walkin' cross the floor...." Okay - now that I've had my fun, here's the real answer to your question: "Royalty are always portrayed in sculpture with the left foot striding forward to signify their status as divine mortals." http://www.eyeconart.net/history/ancient/egypt.htm