Article: Five things to know about... thread count.

Article: Counting down: is thread count still a deciding ...
HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network;  August 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NEW YORK -- Thread count has occupied a primary position ... sheets. One side holds that thread count remains important to today ... while the other side says thread count has begun to lose some of its ...

Article: Thread count isn't so simple
Post-Tribune (IN);  June 11, 2007 ;     567 words ... ... we deserve luxuriously comfortable sheets. That brings me to thread count. We've come to believe that higher thread count means better sheets. But the very term "thread count" is confusing to most of us in the market for new sheets. To ...

Article: DOWN FOR THE COUNT; WHEN SHOPPING FOR BEDSHEETS, THERE'S MORE TO ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  August 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... quality of their cotton bedsheets with a higher thread count. Unfortunately, those numbers aren't always accurate. A 600-thread-count sheet might not be more luxurious than a 300-thread-count. Some manufacturers are misleading consumers ...

Article: Thread count game slammed by FTC [Federal Trade ...
Home Textiles Today;  September 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the practice of stating an inflated thread count, achieved by multiplying the actual ... The non-deceptive way to disclose thread count and yarn ply, he said, would be to state count followed by ply, as in: 300 thread count, two-ply yarn. "A representation ...

Article: Thread count is key to comfort in bed
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 3, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Thread count. Thread count. Thread count. Once the concern of European royalty, the obsession with thread count -- the number of threads in a square inch of fabric, which indicates how tightly they are woven -- filtered down years ago to ...

Article: 300 AND STILL COUNTING: MASS UPS SHEET WARS.(mass merchants, ...
HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network;  June 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... discount stores have broken the 300-thread-count sheet barrier, once again upping ... Three discounters introduced 300-thread-count sheet programs: Wal-Mart unveiled a Springmaid 300-thread-count pima blend while Target broke with ...

Article: Thread-count lawsuit may cover thousands
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  February 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... More is more, when it comes to thread count. The new breed of luxury bed sheets ... previously was called a two-ply 300 thread-count sheet, for example, became advertised ... beat it into consumer's heads that (thread count) is the most important thing," says ...