Know Your Cotton. Know Your Craft. | Fabric & Craft Library

Know Your Cotton. Know Your Craft. Beautiful bedding begins with understanding what it's made from and how its patterns are created. Explore honest, practical guides to our cotton fabrics and textile techniques.

Discover the Fabrics

From everyday yarn counts to crisp percale and softly layered dohars, learn what each fabric label really means.

Explore the Crafts

Discover the difference between hand block printing, screen printing, heritage-inspired indigo patterns and the work behind embroidery.

Find the right bedding for your home

Understand the numbers behind fabric choices in our thread count vs yarn count guide, and find the right fit with our King vs Super King comparison or bedsheet size calculator.

Start with our pure cotton bedsheet buying guide, explore cotton for Indian weather, or read how to choose a dohar.

Ready to choose your own edit? Shop bedsheets or shop dohars.

How we explain fabrics at The Bed Edit

We distinguish fibre (what a fabric is made from), yarn count (yarn fineness in a stated counting system), weave (how yarns are interlaced), and printing or embroidery (how a design is added). No single specification guarantees comfort or long life. The product listing and care label are the final reference for the particular design and size you choose.

These educational guides explain terms and informed choices; they are not laboratory certificates or comparative performance tests. For evidence about a particular fibre composition or test result, ask for the relevant documented specification.