A comforter (in American English), moreover known as a doona in Australian English,[1] or a continental quilt (or handily quilt) or duvet in English, is a type of bedding made of two lengths of fabric or covering sewn together and filled as soon as insulative materials for warmth, traditionally down or feathers, wool or cotton batting, silk, or polyester and other next to different fibers. subsequently quilts, comforters are generally laid exceeding a summit bed sheet (and sometimes afterward blankets). Duvets are substitute form of quilt, traditionally filled past feathers, though since the tardy 20th century often made of synthetic fibres or all along alternatives.
A comforter is sometimes covered for tutelage and prolonged use. Comforter covers are similar in principle to pillowcases, usually closed with zippers or buttons.
In the allied Kingdom the term comforter is not generally used. It is otherwise called a quilt (or continental quilt), duvet or an eiderdown. A duvet differs in that it is thicker and usually used without blankets or supplementary sheets.
Sometimes a comforter is sold as ration of a "bed in a bag", usually a stroke of some sort later handles that contains an entire set of bedding in the same or a matching pattern: comforter and top sheet, fitted sheet, pillowcase(s), and perhaps pillow sham(s). Some sets have a duvet and duvet cover (more well-liked in Europe) in area of a comforter and top sheet. More deluxe sets may tally a bed skirt and pillows.
Comforters are usually used in the winter season taking into account it is utterly cold, although a variety of exchange thicknesses means that they can be used in additional seasons as well, like lighter examples subconscious used in warmer weather. Due to the thickness of a comforter or the amount of down/feathers or extra filling it has, a person is insulated adjacent to cold.
Comforter sizes see eye to eye later than bed sizes: twin, full, queen, king, and cal-king. Comforter sizes control slightly larger than mattress sizes to allow for draping over the sides of the bed. Typical sizes in the allied States for comforters are:
Twin Bed = 64 in (163 cm) width 87 in (221 cm) length
Queen Bed / Full = 87 in (221 cm) width 87 in (221 cm) length
King Bed = 101 in (257 cm) width 90 in (229 cm) length
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