[Closed] 100% Hungarian Goose Down Duvet (13.5 TOG £115)?

Silk is the best filling for duvets. Seriously impressed with one I purchased 4 years ago. So much thinner , but just as warm as big down ones.

Mine comes with two parts to button together. Light and medium but both together are used in deep winter.

More expensive but soooo with the money.

13.5tog?!?!?!

some companies claim to use 'ethical' down, which means the geese are killed first. How many geese for a duvet?

WHat a strange world when ethical means we kill it first

Its pretty hard to add the word killed to a sentence to make it better. For example

I kill them before I mug them
I killed him then took his bike

etc

Silk is the best filling for duvets. Seriously impressed with one I purchased 4 years ago. So much thinner , but just as warm as big down ones.

I'm not sure I understand the physics of that. Insulation is just air trapped in the filling and warmed by your body, so unless it's really badly designed - stitch-through construction, poor down distribution, so small your feet stick out the bottom - I struggle to see how, for example, a 2" thick silk-filled duvet could be warmer than a thicker down one.

I guess if it in some way prevents external heat loss more efficiently, it might work, but again I'm not sure how that would work either unless there was significantly less air movement within the insulation layer.

I'm not saying you're making things up btw, I'm just a little puzzled by how it would work.

some companies claim to use 'ethical' down, which means the geese are killed first. How many geese for a duvet?

I think ethical down generally is a byproduct of the food industry, so the geese are killed to be eaten and then plucked rather than being killed and not being plucked. In an ideal world the geese have a nice life roaming free and eating natural stuff before being killed and eaten. I doubt they care what happens to their feathers once they're dead.

The whole ethical down thing is a nightmare. Mountain Equipment did a huge amount of work to audit their down process to make sure it was as humane and ethical as possible - [url= http://www.thedownproject.me.uk ]www.thedownproject.me.uk[/url] - but it's really hard to keep control of that, how do you know, for example, that your down processor only ever sources down from the farms it says it does?

That's a specialist outdoors company with a relatively small appetite for down, but a proper conscience, mass-produced duvet brands, you have to think, just aren't going to go into that level of scrutiny. On top of that, apparently the Chinese have discovered duvets, cue more demand for down, higher prices, potentially even less care.

Interestingly a few outdoors companies are starting to use synthetics designed to perform to similar levels as down, though I doubt that stuff's out in the duvet market yet.

IMHO, the additional comfort comes from the fact they are much, much thinner than the down for the same warmth.
I find the thicker heavy down duvets too constricting a sweaty.
It's also nice to be able to "tune" the duvet to the season.

Wife is allergic, so we have synthetic down.

I don't miss the feathers.

buy a goose and cuddle it. (put some plastic sheets on though, eh)

buy a goose, kill it and then cuddle it. (put some plastic sheets on though, eh)

That's better.

And more ethical 🙂

Struggle to see where a down duvet cannot be replaced by a synthetic one? I mean you're in bed, in your house, which is never going to be -5c.

A 13.5 tog syntheic should be as warm as a 13.5 tog down...shirley??

Am I right in saying you can't machine wash down either?

I bought a wool duvet from Baavet last year and it's brilliant. Don't think I'll be doing back to down.

Think I'll stick with a synthetic then.
Saw a Hotel brand duvet in Dunhelm which was nice.

Stuart

We had a synthetic one for a while and it was like a foam mattress insofar as it seemed to lie on top of you, in a semi rigid sort of way. It was warm enough but draughty. (It wasn't a budget option either)

[quote=slowjo ]We had a synthetic one for a while and it was like a foam mattress insofar as it seemed to lie on top of you, in a semi rigid sort of way. It was warm enough but draughty. (It wasn't a budget option either)
I recognise that issue from way back but synthetic duvets have improved massively over the years.

13.5 would kill me 3.5 most of the year and 7 for the really cold spell in winter. Who doesn't make their own heat 🙂

Always synthetic as down duvets are just not as comfortable in my opinion, better quality cotton on the outer helps in my opinion i.e. John Lewis Jaquard cotton ones are nice.