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Care Guide · Silk Duvets<\/p>\n

Is There Such a Thing as a Washable Silk Duvet?<\/h1>\n
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Search for a washable silk duvet and the listings are easy to find, all of them promising silk that can go through a washing machine. Customers ask us the same thing almost every week: once the duvet needs freshening, can it simply be washed? For the great majority of traditional mulberry silk duvets the answer is no, and it is yes only for a small, very specific group of products. Below: why most silk duvets cannot be washed, what the washable ones are actually made of, and how a silk-filled duvet stays fresh for years without ever seeing water.<\/p>\n

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Most mulberry silk duvets cannot be washed. Water and agitation press the air out of the silk fill, and the fibres clump, harden and in bad cases break down. A washable silk duvet does exist, but it is a thin, quilted summer weight, usually filled with tussah silk, sometimes given a water-repellent finish, and it has a shorter working life. For a full-weight duvet the routine is simpler: air the duvet and wash the cover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Why can't a traditional mulberry silk duvet be washed?<\/h2>\n

In short<\/span>Because washing takes apart the structure that makes silk fill work.<\/p>\n

Mulberry silk fibre has a natural wave along its length. Laid down as a long-strand fill, layer over layer, those waves hold pockets of air between the fibres. The trapped air is what gives a silk duvet its loft, its softness, its warmth and its breathability, and it is the reason a good silk duvet feels far lighter than it is. How a silk duvet is made<\/a> shows the layering step by step.<\/p>\n

Put that fill in water and the fibres are compressed. The air is pushed out, and once wet fibres dry pressed against each other they mat into flat, hard sheets that do not spring back. In the worst cases the fibres break and turn powdery. At that point the duvet is finished, however good the silk was to begin with.<\/p>\n

This is why the care label on a full-weight mulberry silk duvet says the same thing every time: do not wash. It is not caution for its own sake. It is the one instruction that decides whether the duvet lasts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So what is a washable silk duvet?<\/h2>\n

In short<\/span>A thin, quilted summer duvet made to a different recipe.<\/p>\n

A small number of products are sold as washable, and they meet several conditions at the same time. None of them is a secret; they simply describe a different product.<\/p>\n