Made exclusively for The Wool Company, our Spring and Autumn weight is the duvet for the long middle of the English year, when a summer weight is no longer quite enough and a winter one is too much.
The name is a description rather than a flourish. This is white British wool, graded before it ever reaches the mill and then combed into layers so fine they are close to translucent. Coarseness is what makes wool prickle, and there is none of it in a filling of this grade, not that it could reach you through the casing in any event.
Those layers are laid one across another in a criss-cross, rather than blown into the casing the way a man-made filling is. It is the slower way to build a duvet, and it is the reason for the loft and the drape: air held in a structure rather than in bulk, so the duvet falls with you instead of sitting on top of you.
The casing is a very fine white cotton, woven closely enough that no fibre migrates through it, and with rather more in common with good bed linen than with bedding.
At 10.5 tog it is the weight that suits most bedrooms for most of the year. Wool carries moisture out of the filling rather than holding it against you, so it stays comfortable across a wider range of nights than a man-made duvet of the same rating, which is what makes one duvet do the work of two.
A wool duvet is best under a wool pillow. Ours come in low, medium and firm fill, or an adjustable pillow you can set to your own height, with the rest of the range here.
Size guide: 10.5 tog
- Single: 135 x 200 cm (53 x 78 inches)
- Double: 200 x 200 cm (78 x 78 inches)
- King: 225 x 220 cm (86 x 88 inches)
- Super king: 260 x 220 cm (86 x 102 inches)
Composition: 100% British wool filling, 100% cotton casing
Origin: Made in the United Kingdom
Wool & Allergies
A true allergy to wool is rare. Most people who believe they react to wool are reacting to coarse, prickly fibre against the skin, and a smaller number to lanolin. Neither applies to a duvet. The filling here is fine, clean, de-dusted wool, and it is enclosed in a tightly woven cotton casing, so it never touches you.
So if a wool jumper has made you itch in the past, that tells you very little about how you will get on with a wool duvet.
What wool does do is draw moisture out of the filling rather than letting it sit there, so a wool duvet stays drier inside than a synthetic or down equivalent. House dust mites, much the commonest cause of bedding-related allergy, need warmth and damp to multiply. A drier duvet is a less welcoming one.
Product Care
Air and plump regularly.
Dry clean only.
A duvet this size will not fit a domestic washing machine in any case, so there is no reason to treat the wool to make it washable, and we don't. Machine-washable wool has to be chemically treated to smooth the fibre's natural scales, and that costs it some of its breathability and moisture handling. Our filling is untreated, so it keeps 100% of the benefits of natural wool.
In practice a wool duvet needs far less cleaning than a synthetic or down one. Wool repels odours and bacteria rather than holding on to them, so it doesn't smell, and it resists dirt as well. A couple of hours over a line on a dry day will freshen a wool duvet in a way that a man-made filling needs a wash to achieve.
Less washing also means the filling keeps its loft for far longer, which is a large part of why a good wool duvet outlives a synthetic one.
Origin & Sustainability
These duvets are made from fully natural materials, 100% traceable British wool and a pure cotton casing, at a mill in Yorkshire. The makers are proud holders of the British Wool Crook Mark, awarded in recognition of their support for British farming and their use of high-quality British wool.
The wool comes from Scottish farms and is certified 100% traceable, so every duvet can be followed back to its source farms. That matters to us twice over. It stands behind the welfare standards under which the fleece was grown, and it puts money back into British sheep farming at a time when a farm's clip has, in some years, been worth less than the cost of shearing it off.
Wool is also about as renewable as a fibre gets. A sheep grows a new fleece every year, the fibre needs very little processing to become a duvet filling, and at the end of a long life it biodegrades completely rather than lingering in the ground the way a man-made filling does.
And a duvet you keep is the most straightforward sustainability there is. Aired rather than washed, and plumped now and then, a wool duvet will stay in good order for many years longer than a synthetic one.
