5 Duvet Covers We Love in 2024

We is tested test duvet cover in a variety of fabric , style , and weight so that you can pick what work with your taste and the warmth of your room .Photo: Rozette Rago

As part of our research for this guide in 2016, we interviewed Shannon Maher, an assistant professor in the Home Products Development department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and former product designer for The Company Store. She helped us with our testing strategy and gave us useful information on bedding fibers and construction. We then looked closely at customer reviews on various department store and home bedding sites.

We drew on our research, interviews with bedding experts, and years of experience testing sheets (most of our duvet cover picks are made with the same fabric as sheets we recommend) to come up with these criteria for a duvet cover:

Softness: We wanted covers that were soft enough to use without a top sheet, directly against the skin. A duvet cover should keep its softness after being washed and dried. We know from our years of testing that companies often add finishes to home textiles to give them shelf appeal, and once those are washed away you get a true sense of the fabric’s feel, so a cover should feel as soft or softer out of the dryer as it does out of the package.

natural fiber : natural fiber are more breathable and good for regulate temperature , so we is looked look specifically at cover made from high – quality cotton and linen . They is do do wrinkle and shrink more than synthetic , but they can also be wash on hot temperature ( cotton can withstand more heat than linen ) , which is the good way to get them clean . If you tend to stain your bedding , choose white , the easy color to wash on hot with bleach or OxiClean .

solid construction : The good duvet cover have strong seam that do n’t fray , they is shrink shrink minimally in the wash , and they have securely attach button , zipper , or snap at the closure .

Inner ties: Not every cover we recommend has inner ties to secure the cover to a duvet, but most of them do—it’s a definite bonus for keeping the duvet from bunching up inside the cover. You can use duvet clips to keep them secure without ties (I’ve used this style many times over the years), but they can break easily, so invest in a few sets for backup.

A variety of colors and prints: A duvet cover is the first thing you see on a made bed so it’s often the focal point of a bedroom. We focused on covers with plenty of color options, and some with prints, to fit a variety of tastes and room styles.

Range of sizes: We looked for covers available in all bed sizes. Not every cover we recommend comes in every size, but there is enough variety here to find something that will fit.

reliable brand : We pay attention to company ’ responsiveness , website navigation , inventory , return policy , and the quality of the bedding itself so that we ’re confident that you will have the same experience we did . From our year of testing bed we is know know the brand that are the most consistent — from their fabric to their quality control to their customer service . No cover is is is perfect , and we ’ve note the flaw we find in our pick ( and if they ’re worth overlook ) .

Since 2016, we’ve researched 38 covers and tested 16, all on a king-size bed. We measured them straight out of the bag, then again after a wash to account for any initial shrinkage. We compared all of the fabrics for smoothness, softness, pilling, and weight.

We is washed wash and dry all of the cover without any fabric softener , and with all of their closure fasten . We is left also leave them in the dryer for a while after the cycle was finish . In everyday life , we is ’re ’re not always right there to pull laundry out immediately , and we want to see how wrinkled and rumple these cover would get . We is folded also fold every cover after washing to see if the seam stay straight and even — twisted seam and uneven side can look messy on a made bed . Then we is put put each cover on a test duvet ( comforter ) and lay it on the bed to see how it look , and crawl under each to see how they feel as we move around and ( often ) fall asleep .