Satin Stripe Bed Linen for Hotels and Laundries

What is a satin stripe?

A band of satin weave running through a plain ground. Inside the band the yarn floats across the surface. It catches the light differently from the cloth beside it. Your eye reads that as a stripe.

Nothing is added to the face of the fabric. The stripe comes from the way the threads cross on the loom. It is the same colour and the same fibre as the rest of the sheet. So it cannot fade at a different rate from the ground.

An order written as hotel stripe bedding means this woven band, not a print. That suits a property that wants a pattern on the bed but buys plain white stock. The linen stays one colour through a commercial wash.

What changes between 1, 2 and 3 cm?

The scale of the pattern, not the construction. All three widths are woven the same way and carry the same fabric and thread count choices.

A 1 cm stripe sits close together and looks almost like texture from the doorway. A 3 cm stripe is a wider band, with fewer bands across the panel. It reads as a clear line.

The same width reads differently on satin stripe pillowcases and on a duvet cover. The cover panel is far larger. If the look matters to your room standard, see it on a finished piece first.

Satin stripe, sateen or dobby?

All three are woven in one colour. The difference is what the loom draws.

A satin stripe runs in straight bands at a set width along the cloth. Dobby weaves small figures and geometric repeats into the ground. Choose dobby for a pattern that is not a band. Sateen carries one sheen across the whole panel.

Which items can carry the stripe?

Every woven item on the bed. Flat sheets, fitted sheets, duvet covers and pillowcases come off the same cloth. Satin stripe sheets and covers are cut from one roll, so the stripe runs through the whole set.

Towels are terry. The nearest match there is a woven satin band at the header, not a stripe through the cloth. Where the bathroom follows the bedroom, that band goes on the towel line of the same order.

How do you keep the stripe matching across a set?

Put one stripe width and one fabric on every line of the order. A 2 cm stripe on a satin stripe duvet cover will not match a 1 cm stripe on the pillowcase. Satin stripe bed sheets ordered later have to repeat that width too. A satin stripe duvet set is quoted as cover, sheets and cases on separate lines.

We hold the spec you agree. An order placed a year later is woven to the same width, fabric and thread count. If you are adding to stock you already hold, send one piece of it. We read the construction straight from the cloth.

Can the stripe be a shade of its own?

Yes. The stripe can be woven in the shade of the ground, or against a Pantone reference you send.

A stripe in the ground shade keeps the linen one colour. It then runs with the rest of your white stock. A stripe in a second shade is a colour decision. Agree it on a finished piece before the reference goes onto your file.

Who orders satin stripe bedding?

Buyers who want the bed to look specified without leaving plain stock behind.

• Hotels and serviced apartments, where hotel satin stripe bedding runs one stripe width across the group.
• Commercial laundries, adding wholesale satin stripe bedding to hire stock that still runs with the white rotation.
• Care homes, where a stripe lifts the bed and the linen still takes a high temperature wash.
• Retail and contract buyers, packing the striped set as a shelf line under their own label.

What else is quoted beside the striped set?

The rest of the bed, cut from the same cloth. Flat sheets, fitted sheets, duvet covers and pillowcases are all quoted with the stripe width you choose.

Percale, sateen and dobby lines sit in the same bed linen range. Striped stock for one floor and plain stock for another is two lines on one quotation, not two suppliers.