What is a duvet cover? How does it work?

Question

I've always wanted to ask, but have never gotten enough courage to. Is there a special comforter that you have to buy? How does it stay in place?

Answer 1

It's like a pillow case for a feather duvet.

Some of them have snaps or buttons and loops in the corners of the cover and on the duvet so the duvet doesn't shift around inside the cover. (or you can put them on yourself...)

Some have a zipper to keep the duvet inside and others have a flap at the top that covers the opening where you stick the duvet in.

I'm no domestic goddess and I don't "craft" much, but Ive made 2 duvet covers for double and queen size duvets just by sewing together two nice flat sheets for a double bed and getting a matching fabric to make the flap to fold over the top. Otherwise they can be fairly expensive to buy (for some weird reason?)

Answer 2

A duvet cover is the term used in the UK for the giant pillow-case like thing that goes over a plain comforter (or duvet). There are lots of different ways to close them (ties, buttons, velcro). They stay put just simply by fitting well on the comforter (I had a king-sized duvet cover on a double-sized duvet once, and it got pretty twisty).

Duvet covers are sold in standard sizes, and will fit over any kind of comforter, plain or not. If you have a patterned comforter, measure it before buying a duvet cover, as some patterned comforters are not a standard size.

Answer 3

You need a down filled comforter. The duvet is like a giant decorative pillowcase to place your comforter in to protect it. It doesn't always stay in place though . I grab the 2 corners when it gets messy and just fling it to get it evened out again. You can just wash a duvet as needed, it's easier than washing a comforter.

Answer 4

A duvet (pronounced /duːveɪ/, from the French duvet /dyvɛ/ "down") is a type of bedding— a soft flat bag traditionally filled with down or feathers, or a combination of both and used on a bed as a blanket. Duvets originally came out of rural Europe and were made from the down feathers of the Eider duck, which is well known for its usefulness as an insulator.

Eiderdown is therefore used as a synonym of duvet, as is continental quilt.

In Westphalia, an English travel-writer observed with surprise in 1749,

"There is one thing very particular to them, that they do not cover themselves with bed-cloaths, but lay one feather-bed over, and another under. This is comfortable enough in winter, but how they can bear their feather-beds over them in summer, as is generally practised, I cannot conceive." —Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour 1749, vol II. p66 [1]
Duvets are still commonly used in Europe (especially in northern Europe and Scandinavia where it is the most common form of bed covering), and have become popular throughout the world in the late twentieth century.

Duvets reduce the complexity of making a bed, as it is a single cover instead of the combination of two sheets, blankets, and quilts or other bed covers, which is traditional in many parts of the world. Beds equipped with duvets are usually covered first with a flat or fitted bed sheet and then afterwards with a covered duvet. The cover is called a "duvet cover" or a "quilt cover".

Nowadays, a duvet is sometimes filled with wool or artificial fibers (such as polyester batting or other artificial material). It is also sometimes referred to as a comforter, although comforters are primarily decorative while duvets are used for their warmth.

In Australia it is called a "Doona", from a trademarked brand name derived from the Old Norse dunn meaning "down feathers". Though still registered to the Tontine company, the name "Doona" has become a generic term for a duvet or down quilt. A "sick day" from work is sometimes referred to as a "doona day". Originally the term continental quilt was the standard name used across Australia; some regions of Australia still use this term today.

In Danish and Norwegian it is called a dyne, which is pronounced similarly to the Australian name.

The term Duvet Day is used in some countries to describe an allowance of one day a year when you can simply call work and say you're not coming in, even if you don't have holiday booked and you're not ill. This became fashionable in the late 1990s with many larger companies in the USA and the UK.

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Answer 5

its just a cover you put over your quilt/duvet/comforter which is easier to wash and can match your room. You just put in on and there are buttons on the side. You can buy them in single, double, or kingsize depending on the size of your bed.

Answer 6

I have a friend who has nailed it in.
It is a bed cover.

Answer 7

Do you put like a down comforter in it?

Answer 8

what holds the comforter in place so it doesn t shift all over the place