Pinzon 500-Thread Count Egyptian Sateen Sheet Set

by Amazon

Product Features

• Luxurious Egyptian cotton sateen set has flat and fitted sheets, and 2 pillowcases
• Pure, 500-thread-count Egyptian cotton in a sateen weave; machine wash and dry
• 7 fashionable colors; coordinates with all Pinzon bedding, or any home collection
• Deep fitted sheet fits thick, luxury mattresses; expertly made in Portugal
• Queen size; 100-by-102-inch flat sheet; 60-by-80-inch fitted sheet; 20-by-30-inch pillowcases

Product Details

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• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000QJMVS4
• Item model number: PIZ500-SAT-QN-BLU
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #36,943 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Size: Queen | Color: Indochine Blue

Amazon.com Product Description

Pinzon's 500-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets are a sumptuous bedroom treat. Egyptian cotton is known for softness, but when used in a high-thread-count sateen weave, it makes ultra soft and smooth fabrics. Expertly sewn in Portugal and offered in seven high-fashion colors, the sheet set coordinates perfectly with Pinzon Egyptian cotton bedding, including the Fleur Jacquard, Hotel Banded, and White Texture collections. It will also blend with any existing home collection. Offered in Full, Queen, King, and California King sizes, the sets include flat and fitted sheets, as well as two pillowcases. Extra pillowcase sets are sold separately. The Queen-sized fitted sheet has deep, 15-inch corners to fit thick, luxury mattresses, and it measures 60 by 80 inches. The flat sheet is 100 by 102 inches and the standard pillowcases are 20 by 30 inches.

Fabric Definitions
Egyptian Cotton: Egyptian cotton is used to make some of the highest quality linens in the world, including sumptuously soft bath and bed linens. Egyptian cotton is grown to produce a longer staple, or fiber, than generic cotton, and the longer and finer a cotton staple is, the better able it is to be spun into finer count yarns, which in turn can be knitted or woven into soft, fine, and luxurious fabrics. The staple length in Egyptian cotton averages 1-1/8 to 1-1/2 inches, but can reach over 2-1/4 inches, which is twice the size of a generic cotton fiber. Products which highlight construction of Egyptian cotton are usually referring to the extra-long-staple cotton produced largely in the Nile River Valley. The humidity and rich soil around the Nile delta produce especially long cotton fibers, which are fine and vary from a light cream to dark tan color. Egyptian cotton is strong, durable and, if cared for properly, will be long lasting.

Sateen: Sateen fabric has a supremely soft, satin-like finish resulting from a four-over-one thread weave. Standard weaves, like percale, use a one-over, one-under stitch. The four-over weave puts more threads nearer the surface, resulting in a softer, warmer surface. Sateen fabrics are most often made of mercerized cotton, but can be made of other fabrics, including cotton blends, polyester, and rayon. Mercerized threads give sateen fabrics a higher luster. Mercerization, named for process-creator John Mercer, involves treating threads with a cold concentrated sodium hydroxide solution. Mercerization also increases strength, dyeability, and resistance to mildew, as well as reduces lint. Sateens can be produced in light and heavy weights, and are ideal for bedding.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Sheets I Have Ever Owned...Buy these before they are gone!, April 27, 2008

By	Wind Dancer "TexasWhisper" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinzon 500-Thread Count Egyptian Sateen Sheet Set (Kitchen)

Buy these sheets while you can, don't hesitate. These are superior sheets, the softest I have ever experienced, and today I am ordering 2 additional king sets and more for my guest room. I have used Egyptian sateen sheets for the last 25 years and have wanted to kick myself for not purchasing additional sets each time I had to replace my sheets---btw, I have only replaced my Egyptian sheets every 7 years. This time I am buying the extra sets. It was a hard decision, but I finally decided to disregard the unhappy reviews and order a Pinzon king set. I am so glad I took the chance.

The rough texture others experienced may result from how they were originally washed and dried. As soon as I received these sheets, I washed them in cold water with cold water Tide. I then dried them with some dryer sheets on the most delicate setting for about 15 minutes and then put them on air dry. That was it, they came out with very almost no wrinkles (I took them out immediately) and as soft as any sheet I have ever purchased. Today, I was washing an old set of sheets and one of my new Pinzon pillow cases went in with the old. I left everything in the dryer on high heat overnight. When I pulled the pillow case out it was rough, wrinkled, and did not even resemble my sheets. I threw it back in with my delicates on cold and long story short, it came out just beautifully. You will not have to treat these sheets so delicately after a few washes, but it is worth it to slide into sheer bliss when I go to bed. I am very picky, I will not sleep on crisp or rough sheets, so had these come out rough I would have returned them immediately for replacements.

The search for this product is confusing. You get a result for Queen sheet set and if you go to that page, you then select King. Amazon and the seller need to fix that.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but......, February 13, 2008

By	Silence Dogood (AZ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinzon 500-Thread-Count Egyptian Cotton Sateen California King Sheet Set, White (Kitchen)

These were awesome sheets coming out of the packaging and after a few washes they lost a little of their original softness. The one-star drawback for me was that they were marketed as deep fitting sheets. I found that not to be the case. These sheets on my 15" Cal King mattress are fully stretched to the corners with the sides not making it. At best, they were covering 75% of the mattress sides. Notice in the description that they don't identify what size mattress it can cover. I would guess no more than 12" by my experience.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as soft as expected and why...., May 15, 2008

By	M. Northrup "Mr. Matthew" (NYC, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Pinzon 500-Thread-Count Egyptian Cotton Sateen Queen Sheet Set, Chocolate (Kitchen)

After receiving my order of sheets, I washed them once and they are stiff and a rough. I can't understand how 500 thread count can be rough? Now reading other reviews of the product, I can now see that customers noticed the same that I did. The sheets are very thick compared to my 320 thread count sheets. I belive they are misleading people with the thread count advertised. I researched on Wikiapedia regarding the subject, and thread count is a measure of the coarseness or fineness of fabric. It is measured by counting the number of threads contained in one square inch of fabric, including both the length (warp) and width (weft) threads. It is used especially in regard to cotton linens such as bed sheets.

Thread count is a simple measure of fabric quality, so that "standard" cotton thread counts are around 150 while good-quality sheets start at 180 and a count of 200 or higher is considered percale. Extremely high thread counts (typically over 500) tend to be misleading as they usually use 'plied' yarns. i.e. one yarn that is made by twisting together multiple finer threads. For marketing purposes, a fabric with 250 yarns in both the vertical and horizontal direction could have the component threads counted to a 1000 thread count although "according to the National Textile Association, which cites the international standards group ASTM, accepted industry practice is to count each thread as one, even threads spun with two- or three-ply yarn. The Federal Trade Commission agrees and recently issued a warning that consumers 'could be deceived or misled' by inflated thread counts."[1]

I belive this to be true as the sheets are very thick and warm to there credit but not soft!!!

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