Along with specifications like material, size, and weave, most cotton bedding comes with a thread count, which is the number of threads in one square inch of fabric. It’s determined by counting the ...

Walk down any bedding aisle (or scroll through enough product pages) and you’ll see sheet sets labeled with thread counts from 200 all the way up to 1,800. It's easy to come to the conclusion that a ...

At some point during the ’90s, the trend of marketing high-thread-count bedsheets as a higher-quality option took off. It's easy to see why you could fall for it: Higher-thread-count sheets often feel ...