This week I had a customer who had trouble with her decorative pillows.  The feathers kept coming out and she had loose feathers continuously on her sofa.  It was very aggravating and she didn’t know how to solve the problem except to get new pillows.

New pillows may solve the problem but really, the liner is the problem and if the new pillows don’t have a good liner, the problem will still exist.

The feathers are encased in a ticking fabric and that is then slipped into a decorative pillow cover.  But the ticking needs to be a dense fabric otherwise the feathers will work their way through the light weight liner and then through the outer fabric as well.  And if the feathers are coming out, it is probably because an inexpensive fabric was used to make the feather pillow liner.

A 230 thread count fabric or higher is the sign of a good feather pillow liner – meaning that the fabric is very densely woven.  The feathers will stay in the pillow and the quill will not work its way out leaving your pillow plump and full for a long time.

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