Emperor Bedding – 6 Essentials You Can’t Do Without

Emperor beds are a wonderful thing, but once you have it where do you find your bedding?

You may find emperor bedding items can be a hard products to track down due to it a popular size, luckily this handy list should leave you kitted out for a fantastic nights sleep! Click to Tweet!

emperor bedding set in downham
emperor bedding set – downham

If your out shopping for bedding you will have probably noticed that standard UK beds are classed as Single, Double, King & Super King. These range from 3′ up to 6′ in width and are the norm in nearly every bed store in the UK. Times are changing however and in recent years the larger 6’6″ and 7′ Emperor bed and mattress have grown in popularity.

This list is for those contemplating buying an emperor bed or people who already own one. Lets start with what we think are the essentials and work our way down.

Emperor Mattress Protector

First of all, this is definitely the most important purchase after your bed. There could be nothing worse than enjoying your new emperor bed only to spoil it with an accidental spill of coffee! Once a mattress is stained or

emperor mattress protector
emperor mattress protector

damaged by liquids in can be difficult if not impossible job to try and get it clean again. Emperor Mattress Protectors are the best way of stopping this happening. A layer between your bed sheet and the mattress that can stop any spillages or accidents getting on to the mattress.
Most protectors come in the same types of fabrics that can roughly be dropped into 2 categories:

Types of protector

  • Quilted: Usually a polyester material with diamond quilting. The quilted material is good as a general purpose protector for your bed, shielding from slight spillages or splashes.  These protectors are not usually anti allergenic as dust mites can form in the polyester wadding.
  • Waterproof: Usually a non permeable material backed with cotton or fleecing for comfort.  These protectors are great at stopping anything getting through to the mattress, unfortunately that includes air which means your bed can get quite warm.  TENCEL emperor mattress protectors are relatively new to the market, the amazing thing about this material is that it protects your mattress from water and bed mites whilst also being breathable. Find out more about TENCEL fabric in our other blog post here.

Emperor Fitted Sheets

Emperor fitted sheet
Emperor fitted Sheet

Now your have protected your bed the next thing is a soft, comfortable sheet to go across it. We recommend an Emperor Fitted Sheet for this simply because its easy to use. We make them with an elastic border all round the sheet so they are easy to fit into place. Sheets, as with most of your emperor bedding will come in different thread counts:

Bedding Fabric Types

  • 200 Thread Count Poly Cotton Percale: Poly cotton is probably the most popular fabric on the market.  The mix of polyester and cotton makes for a sheet that is extremely durable but is also an ‘easy-care’ fabric meaning there is little to no ironing needed after being laundered.  All our poly cotton is 50/50 mix as we find this is the best feel and quality while still maintaining the easy-care properties.
  • 100% Cotton Percale:  This is as stated, our pure 100% cotton.  Cotton has long been the most popular fabric used in bedding. Its cooling and soft qualities have been well documented over the years. Our Emperor Fitted Sheets are made from 100% cotton in a range of thread counts.  Meaning our fabrics contain 200, 400 or 1000 threads to the inch.  Each of these cottons are beautifully soft and become softer with each higher thread count.  While you will have more ironing with cotton to remove creases, they are significantly more soft.  See here for more on our cotton’s unique qualities.
  • What is Percale?  You may have seen it mentioned a couple of times above.  Percale is a term used when yarns of cotton are combed before weaving. This is a process used to remove knots and other impurities making your sheets softer and longer lasting.

You don’t have to use Fitted Sheets if you find them a pain to iron.  Alternatives are emperor sized flat sheets (usually about 305cm wide). Alternately, use semi fitted sheets where only the bottom of the sheet has elastic.

Emperor Sized Duvets and Duvet Sets

Who doesn’t love curling up in a swath of soft duvet, snuggling for a great nights sleep? Why should it be any different if you have an emperor bed? Finding the right size duvet for your emperor bed can be a problem. Luckily online we have a wide range of emperor duvets and emperor duvet sets made to fit perfectly. You need duvets and sets that measure approx. 232 x 292cm, this size is ideal for your emperor bed with the correct over hang to give your bedding a great look.

Emperor Duvets

Emperor Duvet
Emperor Duvet

Duvets in the correct 232 x 292cm size are perfect for your emperor bed. These come in 3 different fillings:

  • Dacron Comforel: Snuggle into a high quality hollow fibre filling that has a feather light quality whilst also being non allergenic.
  • Duck Feather and Down: Curl up in a naturally filled duvet with high 85/15 feather to down mix.
  • Goose Down: Dive into an amazingly light and cosy duvet made in 90% Goose Down and 10% Feather.

Emperor Duvet Sets

Call me a genius but a duvet set is especially relevant if you have a new duvet. Using a duvet without a cover means you need a lot more room in the washer, way to much trouble! A soft, durable duvet cover is always a good addition. Plus the cover can add a splash of colour and design that can brighten up the whole room.

We have emperor duvet sets available in the fabrics described above.

emperor duvet sets
emperor duvet set

50/50 Poly cotton and 100% cotton in various high quality thread counts. One thing you should look out for is the quality of the clasps at the foot of your cover where the emperor duvet goes in. Some manufacturers cut corners here using cheap plastic clasps that soon become brittle and break in the wash, leaving half your duvet hanging on the floor! Our covers come with durable metal clasps that can withstand up to 10 years worth of wash and dry cycles, guaranteed! Get your cover in a range of bright colours and designs made to suit any bedroom.

Emperor Bed Valance

A bed valance is the perfect finish to your bed, also commonly known as a bed ruffle or a bed skirt. An emperor valance will run a frill around the whole base of your bed covering the divan or the bed legs.

emperor bed valance
emperor bed valance

For an emperor sized valance the finish needs to be either 200 or 213cm approx. depending on the width of your bed. We would advise that you measure the width and length of your bed and check before ordering. Emperor bed valances come in 12 colours in our 50/50 poly cotton fabric, a good durable material that will give a great finish once in place. Choose from a selection of finishes to best suit your room. Valance styles are as shown in the image: frilled, box pleated or single pleated.

Emperor Mattress Toppers

A mattress topper might not be classed as an essential item for a new emperor bed. However, older mattresses can spread and loose some of there comfiness over time, thats where this topper proves useful. The topper is lay across the top of the mattress and may be attached using

emperor mattress topper
emperor mattress topper

elastic loops. These mattress toppers can refresh an old mattress and give an extra layer of comfort, especially for those who may find there mattress too hard. Like duvets, toppers are available in a number of fillings including comfort polyester and feather ranges.

Emperor Bedding Sets

Why not consider a bespoke made emperor bedding set?  A very easy and hassle free way to buy bedding for your bed. A set will contain almost everything you need in one handy purchase. Furthermore a set can come complete with emperor bedspreads, cushions and pillow shams to take your emperor bed linen (and your bedroom) to a whole new level! Customers can order samples of fabrics and speak to our customer service centre on 01706 220020 for more information.

Phew, and there we have it. I think we have covered everything you will need for your new emperor bed. If you spot anything I have missed or we didn’t cover be sure to let us know in the comments below.

 

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New Stunning Crush Velvet Bedding!

Here At Victoria Linen, we love to bring you made to measure bed linen – perfectly crafted to fit your Emperor Bed. Not only that, we delight in using the highest quality fabrics to bring an elegant signature style to your bedroom. As you probably know, all of this beautiful bespoke bedding is cut straight from the roll by our expert seamstresses to provide you with a perfect fit for your emperor bed. In the highest quality premium fabric, Our luxurious bedding is strong and long lasting.

Full Bedding Set
Full Bedding Set

We are excited to announce the latest addition to our Emperor Bedding Line – The Crush Velvet Designer Bedding Set for Emperor Beds. This lavish newcomer joins our full line of Victoria Linen Company Emperor Bedding which includes Emperor Bedding Sets, Emperor Flat and Fitted Sheets, Emperor Mattress Protectors and
Bed Valances, Emperor Pillows and Duvets, and Emperor Bed Throws, Runners and Mattress Toppers.

The Crush Velvet Designer Bedding Set is offered in a variety of lush colours including shimmering pearl, rich latte, deep azure blue, vibrant crimson, intense grape and stunning olive. Available in Emperor Bed sizes 7’ x 6’ 6” and 7’ x 7’, the set includes one 7′ Fitted Sheet, a 115″ x 92″ Emperor Duvet Cover as well as two 3’ Oxford Pillow Cases. Each of these pieces comes in your choice of 400 or 1,000 thread count Egyptian cotton. In addition, the set also includes two sumptuous 3’ Pillow Cases in Crush Latte, two lavish feather filled 45 x 45cm Crush Orchid Cushions and a 108″ x 25″ Bed Runner in Crush Heather. This soft and luxurious crush velvet effect fabric is backed in 100 percent satin weave.

Crush-Colours
Available Colours of Crush Velvet
Crush-Pillow-Case
Crush Velvet Pillow Cases

The sizes available include standard and large single, small and standard double, as well as standard and super king. The Crush Velvet Bed Runner is also backed in 100 percent satin weave. Also the Crush Velvet Cushions (45 x 45 cm) are offered six opulent colours to coordinate with any bedroom décor.

The Crush Velvet Designer Bedding Set and Coordinates offer a strikingly beautiful option for your opulent bedroom and best of all they are designed and hand crafted to perfectly to fit your Emperor Bed. Visit Victoria Linen Company today – in store or online – our friendly expert staff are ready to assist you in creating your very own Crushed Velvet dream room.

Emperor Headboards!

Latest additions to Victoria Linen Company ever-growing lines are luxurious Emperor Headboards. These incredible Emperor Headboards are offered in two styles Ambassador Deluxe or Empress and are designed to add sophisticated fashion and style to your bedroom.

Emperor Headboards
Emperor Headboards
The beautiful bespoke Ambassador Deluxe Emperor Headboard is a traditional deep buttoned design available in a bounty of colours in delightful Marble Chenille – including creamy Ivory, evocative Steel, bubbling Champagne, intense Pewter, Crystal Buttoned, lavish Mink, passionate Aubergine, majestic Ruby and classic Black. The Ambassador is offered in timeless elegant deep buttons or for added indulgence, you can add luxuriant diamante crystals. Each headboard can be designed as bed mounted with required struts standing at 40 inches in height or a free floor standing at 56 inches in height.

The glamorous Empress Headboard also features a deep buttoned design, but with a multitude of diamond shaped button tufts designed to add a bit of panache to any bedroom retreat. The Empress is featured in the same chic Marble Chenille colours as the Ambassador – perfectly blended marbled tones of lights and darks sure to complement in Ivory, Steel, Champagne, Pewter, Lilac, Crystal Buttoned, Mink, Aubergine, Ruby and Black. The Empress headboard comes in both a bed mounted design at 40 inches or a free floor standing version at 56 inches.
The wonderful Victoria Linen Company bespoke Emperor headboards can be created to your specifications in a broad selection of fabrics and designs, so if you are seeking something extra-special to design you own unique bedroom retreat, contact our expert team and let us create your one of a kind headboard.
Keep in mind that Victoria Linen offers a full range of Emperor Bedding to complement your Emperor headboards. Included in the Emperor Line are flat and fitted sheets from original soft 200 thread count poly cotton blends to opulent 1,000 thread count hotel quality luxurious Egyptian Cotton. Emperor Bedding Sets and Duvet Sets in your choice of styles and colours – designer or made to measure are available along with bedspreads, duvets and coordinating bed throws and runners. Rounding out the Emperor bed linens are bed valances, Emperor pillows and pillow cases, mattress toppers and mattress protectors. Also available to complete your elegant Emperor bedroom retreat are custom curtains from Victoria Linen Company – made to measure and the perfect tasteful finish to any room.
Visit us at Victoria Linen today – in store or online and let our friendly, expert staff help you select your new Emperor headboard and all the lovely accoutrements needed to create your opulent bedroom retreat.

Small Double Bedding in Fairmont

Emperor Bedding - Fairmont Design
Fairmont Bedding
At Victoria Linen, we are pleased to introduce the latest in our custom bedding range – the beautifully refined Fairmont – now available as part of our Emperor Bedding and Small Double Bedding sets. As you know highest quality, stylish design bespoke bedding is our specialty and is designed and created right here in the United Kingdom at our manufacturing base. Promising a haute couture bedroom design, Fairmont Bedding features a scrolling floral design with complementary stripe and solid accents – sure to please your modern sophisticated side.

The Fairmont Bedding Set is offered in five colours including enchanting teal on teal with fresh white accents, rich charcoal on charcoal with crisp white complements, down-to-earth denim on denim accented with bright white, romantic duck egg on coordinating blue with brisk white and dreamy raspberry coupled with natural accents. Each set is designed in 100 percent premium Egyptian cotton, promising long-lasting beauty and a comfortable and restful night’s sleep.

In the custom Fairmont Bedding Set, emperor sizing and small double sizing joins popular sizing single, double, king and super king to bring its stylish opulence to more beds and bedrooms. In the small double set, you’ll find a 4′ Fitted Sheet in your choice of 400 or 1000 thread count 100 percent Egyptian Cotton, a 72″ x 86″ Small Double Duvet Cover also in your choice of 400 or 1000 thread count 100 percent Egyptian Cotton, one 4 ft Bed Runner in the Fairmont design measuring 76″ x 39″, two Fairmont Oxford Pillow Shams, two Oxford Pillow Cases in 1000 thread count 100 percent Egyptian Cotton, a Fairmont Cushion 45 x 45 cm and filled with sumptuous feathers, and a 45 x 45cm Kinburn Stripe Cushion, also feather-filled.

In the emperor sizing, the Fairmont Bedding Set includes a 7′ Fitted Sheet in your choice of 400 or 1000 thread count 100 percent Egyptian Cotton, an Emperor Duvet Cover measuring 115″ x 92″ and available in your choice of 400 or 1000 thread count 100 percent Egyptian Cotton, the 119″ x 39″ Emperor Bed Runner in the Fairmont Design, two Fairmont Oxford Pillow Shams, two 3 ft Oxford Pillow Cases in 1000 thread count 100 percent Egyptian Cotton, plus two opulent feather-filled cushions measuring 45 x 45 cm each – the Fairmont and the Kinburn Stripe Cushion.
Keep in mind when ordering bespoke bedding like these lovely sets from Victoria Linen, the custom made bedding may take up to 21 days for creation. Right now, if you purchase the complete set, you can save 10 percent. Visit or stop in today – in store or online and find exactly what you have been looking for – our helpful and expert staff is ready to assist you in selecting your perfect luxury linens.

Happy New Year! Let’s Kick Things Off With some discount bedding!

Since we all know that shopping never takes a holiday – the Victoria Linen Company Winter Sale begins this year on Christmas Day! We hope that you’ll enjoy the holiday with your family and friends and then head on over or stop by online after the festivities are complete to shop for all your favorites and get some great discount Bedding from our Designer and custom Bedding ranges for your home. There is nothing like high quality beautiful bed linens – perfectly suited for your home all year long.

15% Custom Bedding
15% Off Custom Bedding
At this year’s Winter Sale, you’ll find all (yes all!) custom bedding is now discount bedding, all on sale including sheets (fitted and flat), duvets and duvet sets, throws, bed runners, mattress protectors, pillows, pillowcases, mattress toppers, and bed valances. In case you’re thinking that Victoria Linen won’t have your size – consider this vast list of Victoria Linen’s offerings in custom bedding that includes Emperor Bedding, Caesar Bedding, Adjustable Bed Linens, Waterbed Linens, Round Bedding and even Small Double Bedding. During the winter sale all custom bedding is 15 percent off – flawlessly fitted for your custom bed and perfectly designed of the highest quality fabrics available to adorn your bedroom retreat.

Designer Bedding is also included in the Victoria Linen Winter Sale with our discount bedding code WINTER10. That’s right, all your favorites including:

10% Off designer bedding with code
10% Off Bedding with code WINTER10

• Home couture of Kylie Minogue At Home Bedding
• Vintage, yet modern styling of Kirstie Allsopp Home Living
• Innovative and traditional country home designs from Cath Kidston
• Luxurious timeless quality of Dorma Bedding
• Opulence of Sheridan Bedding Sets
• Wonderfully whimsical world of Roald Dahl
• Outdoors In designs by Anorak
• Exceptional Diversity from Belledorm
• Distinctively crafted Jigsaw in exquisite fabrics
• Colorfully imaginative Accessorize Bedding
• And the eclectic contemporary patterns of Janet Reger.

The immense collection of designer bedding at Victoria Linen is 10 percent off when you use the code WINTER10 for your purchase. Each designer line features unique designs and high end fabrics created in styles to suit your ideal bedroom retreat – whether you select lavish couture for your personal bedroom hideaway, modern or vintage for guest’s quarters, wit and whimsy for children’s abodes, or imaginative and diverse designs to please even the pickiest teenager.

So after all the Christmas celebrating is over; call, stop in or visit us online or in store for the Victoria Linen Winter Sale and find the perfect present for yourself and your home – you know – the one you didn’t get for Christmas! Our friendly and expert awaits your visit and promises to help you find exactly what you need – on sale now!

Goose Down Duvets & Emperor Bed Sets

100% Goose Down Duvets
100% Goose Down Duvets
Those who know lavish, luxurious bedding, know that 100 percent goose down duvets are the sumptuous choice for their bedroom retreat. Since you are here and in the know, you’ll be delighted to learn that one of the two latest online additions at Victoria Linen Company is the 100 percent goose down duvet – cozy, comfortable and lush!

The luxuriant 100 percent Goose Down Duvet features highest quality down – Prima Class One Down – covered in softest Swiss Batiste Cotton and finished with piping. These duvets are offered in single, double, king, super king and are lightweight while delivering superior warmth. The warmest natural insulator, goose down combined with cotton wicks away moisture, keeping your body temperature regulated as you are enveloped in comfort year round – in both summer and winter weather. The Victoria Linen 100 percent Goose Down Duvet is offered in three TOG levels (on the warmth scale) – 4.5, 10.5, and 13.5 – the higher the number, the greater the warmth.

Emperor Bedding Set - Madrid
Emperor Bedding | Madrid
Also newly available online at Victoria Linen is the Emperor Duvet Set – Madrid. A complete ensemble for your bedroom; the Madrid Set comes compete with a 7’ fitted sheet and a 115” x 92” Emperor Duvet Cover, both created of sumptuous 400 thread count 100 percent Egyptian cotton. Also included in the set, you’ll find four 3’ Oxford pillow cases, a 45 x 45 cm feather filled Madrid cushion and a 108” x 18 “ Madrid Bed Runner. The set is available for sizes 7’ x 6’ 6”, 7’ x 7’ and 7’ x 7’ 6” selections and is presented in both white and ivory. Due to Madrid’s 400 thread count 100 percent cotton design it is delicate, soft to the touch, lavish and delivers long lasting durability.

In addition to the Madrid Set, consider adding a new Emperor Duvet, enveloped in 100 percent cotton down proof covers offered with your choice of these fillers – Dacron Comforel Hollow Fibre, 85/15 Duck Down and Feather, 90/10 Premium Goose Down and Feather, 90 percent Hungarian Goose Down and of course 100 percent Canadian Snow Goose Down. You chose the TOG or the combination you desire to make the perfect duvet for your bedroom. This duvet is the perfect accompaniment to the Madrid Duvet Set and will complete your lush bedroom retreat.

Stop by, call, or visit online at Victoria Linen today – our expert staff awaits you and promises to help you discover the ideal bed linens – bespoke or designer – for your home!