Marilyn's Photos - Aug 29 2025 - Pillow Talk

 

Sleeping has become expensive over the last few decades - mattresses, sheets, pillows. There's a lot of interest on the internet specifically about pillow cases.  Something about aging and your pillowcase.  I don't want to encourage the click bait crowd, but even the CBC had an article.  With the increased expense and so many types of pillowcases, what should I be investigating?  What they say is that the traditional cotton pillow cases help facilitate wrinkle formation.  That's because the skin doesn't slide easily.  So I guess those thousand count sheets and pillowcases of Egyptian cotton at Langdon Hall had secret powers.  They felt gloriously like silk and to learn they would keep one youthful. I thought all those years it was about luxury. There are developments that have led to pillowcases being made copper.  Copper-infused pillowcases have been studied and the studies suggest that copper can help increase collagen production and reduce fine lines and wrinkles.  "Suggest" is a slippery word, don't you think?  Those of us who sleep on our sides, squish our faces more on one side and have more wrinkles to prove it. And what about those people who sleep on their backs?  How helpful will that pillowcase be? Not as helpful, but you will have fewer wrinkles.   So it looks like it is too late to choose - I've probably got the wrinkles to prove it. Here's glorious Langdon Hall in Cambridge, ON.

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Aug 7 2022 - Sheets and Pillowcases

 

Sheets and pillowcases used to be made of cotton.  That's it.  That's all.  In winter, they would dry on the line into white cardboard sheets.  "Freeze-dried and snow bleached."  Now when I go into Sleep Country, there's everything imaginable.   I got the bamboo pillow cases - bamboo is used to make rayon.  Very smooth and cooling. And the trend now about smooth, soft and cooling in sheets and pillow cases.   And what's available today?  Not just cotton.  ,Cotton sateen is available - again very smooth and extra soft.  Sateen is different than satin - it is cotton and has more vertical threads than horizontal, so  it is more fragile.  Satin has very thin, high-thread-count synthetic materials such as nylon, polyester, or acetate.   The smoothest cotton is Egyptian cotton - it has extremely high thread count.  Generally a  high thread count also means warmer.   What about flax linen - they are said to be soothing and breathable, lightweight and sourced from fields in France and Belgium.  Doesn't that sound like a vacation as you sleep? We live in the time of luxury linens available to everyone.  Remember when the Westin Hotel introduced the "Heavenly Bed"?  That was just over twenty years ago.  It kicked off the luxury bed linen for all trend.  Now we're advised on how often we should replace everything in the bedroom - pillows?  1 to 2 years, sheets? 2 years, and so on.  Toss, toss.  That's part of luxury living. And today's picture continues the investigation of time.  Isn't time  elusive and strange?  I checked out this article in space.com  for a better understanding of time. They let me know it is also illusive.  Complicated.  I went to work on the floral clock and gave time a few twists.

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Splish Splash Carry and Comfort

Redbubble is a purchase site where I have art work for sale as prints, cards, t-shirts, stickers, and now tote bags and pillows.  I described the Splish Splash Series the other day - based on the recycling factory images.  Here is what pillows and tote bags look like.