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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Sunday Citizen If you've ever tried shopping for sheets, whether online or in-store, ...

Sleeping on the best sheets can lead to your best sleep. When looking for new sheets, many shoppers zero in on thread count as the main indicator of quality. While these numbers can range from 200 to ...

January is one of the best times of year to buy new bedding. Ever since John Wanamaker – founder of Philadelphia’s famous Wanamaker’s department store – introduced the first-ever “white sale” in 1878 ...

Along with specifications like material, size, and weave, most cotton bedding comes with a thread count, which is the number of threads in one square inch of fabric. It’s determined by counting the ...

Thread count — referring to the number of yarns in a square inch of sheeting — has long been considered an easy way to shop for luxurious sheets: The higher the thread count, the better the bedding.

When shopping for sheets, one of the first things that comes up is thread count. Whether it’s front-and-center on the packaging or at the front of your mind, it’s always the stitched elephant in the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Walk down any bedding aisle (or scroll through enough product pages) and you’ll see sheet sets labeled ...

A mantra at Consumer Reports is that high-priced products aren't necessarily higher performing. The same can be said of sheets with high thread counts. Despite the notion that more is better, in our ...

At some point during the ’90s, the trend of marketing high-thread-count bedsheets as a higher-quality option took off. It's easy to see why you could fall for it: Higher-thread-count sheets often feel ...