Eiderdown

The Eiderdown comes from the Eider. This is on the coasts of the northern seas at home, in the whole of Scandinavia, especially in Iceland, but also in Schleswig-Holstein/Eiderstedt. Unlike most other down the Eiderdown is not a protection of the duck from the cold, but serves as a protection for their brood.

The Eider staffiert so from their nests to protect the eggs from freezing cold and the winds of the northern climate. This purpose in nature has the Eiderdown awarded outstanding features that makes it the noblest of all packing materials in bedding products.

It has a brownish color, is larger, finer and denser than other ramifies down, and has a velcro -like structure.

Therefore, one can produce a very warm, lightweight blanket with low fill weight of eiderdown. The hook and loop structure prevents in nature, that the down being swept away. They stick to each other and thus form whole ball down.

This feature makes it unnecessary to fill Eiderdaunenduvets in a usual, down proof Percal or cambric cover. One can take pleasure quite noble Seidendamaste or silk satin.

In Germany collecting eiderdown already abandoned nests is exclusively permitted. The crop is tapped to separate it of foreign matter. Eiderdown are the most expensive filling for duvets. Prices vary according to daily exchange rate and availability. For ceiling of size 135 × 200 suffice 600-700 g eiderdown for a pleasant year-round blanket. For the made using the finest Mako Daunenbatiste with the highest thread counts ( NM200 ).

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