When people first shop for bedding, many are surprised to learn how many different mattress sizes there are. They are also surprised to learn just how widely bedding sizes can vary. It’s easy to get confused about how to match bedding sizes and bed sheet sizes with the many different mattress and bed dimensions there are. It’s even more confusing when you find that mattress sizes differ from country to country. There are even mattress sizes peculiar to single companies! The “Olympic Queen” (66” x 80”) from Simmons is six inches wider than a standard queen bed, Select Comfort’s “Grand King” mattress is 4” wider and more than a foot longer than a normal king (80” x 98”), and McRoskey, a Bay Area mattress company, sells a seven foot by seven foot square “San Francisco King” (84” x 84”). In this guide we detail standard North American mattress dimensions and show the bedding sizes that work best with each of them. Then we offer some helpful suggestions about how to get the right bedding for novelty-size mattresses.
Standard Bed Dimensions and Bedding When shopping for bedding, you have some room for error when it comes to the size of duvets, comforters and flat sheets, but not fitted sheets. How much room you have depends on how far the top of your bed is from the floor. Bedding that is too wide will drape onto the bedroom floor. For example, a bed with a thick mattress and box spring allows for a lot more variation in the size of top sheets, blankets, and duvets than a futon frame close to the floor. To get your maximum bedding width, measure the distance from the top of your bed to the floor, double it, and add the width of the mattress. Since fitted sheets are designed to exactly fit the mattress you have much less room for variation. A slightly too large fitted sheet can be usable if you tuck it in tightly, but it’s much better to get fitted sheets that exactly match the dimensions of your mattress. If a fitted sheet is too small, you won’t be able to get it on the mattress at all.
Crane & Canopy Size Chart Crane & Canopy sells duvet covers and duvet inserts in three sizes, Twin/Twin XL (68" x 86"), Full/Queen (88” x 92”) and King/Cal King (106” x 92”), and flat sheets in four sizes, Twin/Twin XL (66" x 96"), Full (90” x 105”), Queen (96” x 105”) and King/Cal King (108” x 105”). We sell fitted sheets and mattress pads in six sizes that exactly match standard North American bed dimensions for Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King and California King. Here is a simple table for matching Crane & Canopy bedding sizes with standard mattresses: DUVET/COMFORTER SIZE TO USE BED SHEET SIZE TO USE Twin Flat Sheet, Twin-XL Fitted Sheet King/Cal-King Flat Sheet, King Fitted Sheet King/Cal-King Flat Sheet, Cal-King Fitted Sheet Note: If you own one of the unusual sizes mentioned above, we would suggest King/Cal King duvets and comforters for all of them, queen flat sheets for the Olympic Queen, and King/Cal King flat sheets for the SF and Grand King.
Fitted sheets are more challenging, because they should match the mattress dimensions. A Cal King fitted sheet will fit relatively well on an Olympic Queen, but for the outsized kings you’ll need to contact the companies that make them for appropriate fitted sheets. This article is about human sleeping facilities. For other uses, see Bedding (disambiguation). Bedclothes in a retail store Bedding, also known as bedclothes[1] or bed linen, is the materials laid above the mattress of a bed for hygiene, warmth, protection of the mattress, and decorative effect. Bedding is the removable and washable portion of a human sleeping environment. Multiple sets of bedding for each bed will often be washed in rotation and/or changed seasonally to improve sleep comfort at varying room temperatures. In American English, the word bedding generally does not include the mattress, bed frame, or bed base (such as box-spring),[2] while in British English it does.[3] In Australian and New Zealand English, bedding is often called manchester.
A set of bedding usually consists of a flat or fitted bed sheet that covers the mattress; a flat top sheet; either a blanket, quilt, or duvet, sometimes with a duvet cover which can replace or be used in addition to the top sheet; and a number of pillows with pillowcases, also referred to as pillow shams. (See #Terminology for more info on all these terms.) Additional blankets, etc. may be added to ensure the necessary insulation in cold sleeping areas. A common practice for children and some adults is to decorate a bed with plush stuffed animals, dolls, and other soft toys. These are not included under the designation of bedding, although they may provide additional warmth to the sleeper. Lightweight white, solid-color or printed plain weave, satin weave, or flannel cotton or cotton/polyester blends are the most common types of sheeting, although linen and silk may also be used, including in combination. Goose or duck down and other feathers are frequently used as a warm and lightweight filling in duvets, comforters and quilts.
But such fill can protrude in part even from tightly-woven fabric, and be an irritant for many people, particularly those with allergies. Natural and synthetic down alternatives are marketed. Cotton, wool or polyester batting is commonly used as fill in quilts and down alternative comforters. These are less expensive and more easily laundered than natural down or feathers. Synthetic fibers are best in the form of thermofused (where fibers cross) batting. Thick-woven or knitted wool, cotton, acrylic or other microfiber synthetics, or blends of these, are typically used for blankets. Around 3400 BC Egyptian pharaohs had their beds moved off the ground and slept on a raised surface. Bed linen was widely evolved in Egypt. It was seen as a symbol of light and purity, as well as a symbol of prosperity. The Egyptian mummies were often wrapped in bed linen.[4] Roman Empire mattresses were stuffed with wool, feather, reeds or hay. The beds were decorated with paint, bronze, silver, jewels and gold.
During the Renaissance, mattresses were stuffed with straw and feathers and then covered with silks, velvets or satin material. In the 18th century Europeans began to use bed frames made from cast iron, and mattresses that were made of cotton. In Japan mattress types were stuffed with cotton and rolled up for storage during the day. In the 19th century the bed spring was invented, also called the box spring. In the 20th century United States, consumers bought the inner spring mattress, followed in the 1960s by the water bed (originating on the West Coast), and adoption of Japanese-style futons, air mattresses, and foam rubber mattresses and pillows. Bedcover entitled "Buildings, Animals and Shields", Albany, New York, c. 1890. Art Institute of Chicago collections. See also: Mattress § Mattress dimensions Bedding sizes are made with consideration of the dimensions of the bed and mattress for which it is to be used. Bed sizes vary around the world, with countries having their own standards and terminology.