Belgium, since 2021
Sheets, covers, and nothing else
Four cloths, five bed sizes, 28 pieces, a team of six. The whole company fits on one page, so here it is.
Four cloths, five bed sizes, 28 pieces, a team of six. The whole company fits on one page, so here it is.
Sunset & Sheets started in 2021 after one of us spent a winter re-tucking the corner of an expensive sheet every morning. The sheet had a thread count on the packet and no wall depth anywhere, and that turned out to be the whole problem with how bedding is sold: the number that is printed is the one that sells, and the numbers that matter are left off.
So we sell the numbers that matter. Every fitted sheet states its wall. Every cover says whether it buttons or envelopes. Every cloth says how it is woven and what that does to it in August and in February. And every page says the thing the cloth does badly, before you buy it, because that is cheaper for both of us than a return.
We do not weave. We are a small company in Belgium that chooses cloth from two mills inside the EU, has it cut and sewn there, and sells it from one warehouse. That is as far as our ambitions for the supply chain go.
Woven and sewn in the EU
Both cottons come from a single mill inside the EU that spins combed long-staple cotton and weaves it two ways on the same looms: one-over-one for the 200-count percale, four-over-one for the 300-count sateen. The washed cotton is the percale, sewn and then put through an enzyme wash so that it arrives soft and never looks pressed.
The linen is a 170 gsm plain weave from a flax mill, also inside the EU, stone-washed twice before cutting. We keep the linen line small - a fitted sheet, a flat sheet, two covers, a pillowcase, a set - because linen is a choice, not a default, and we would rather the cotton pages did not pretend otherwise.
Cutting and sewing happen at a workshop near the cotton mill. Elastic goes round the whole hem of a fitted sheet, not into the corners; covers get eleven corozo-nut buttons or a 30 cm envelope; every piece gets a small care label at the foot end and no other mark anywhere.
Duvets, pillows, toppers, throws and anything printed. We are not a bedroom shop. We will also not sell a cloth without stating its drawback: percale creases, sateen snags, washed cotton fades, linen is scratchy at first. If a cloth had no drawback we would be suspicious of it.
A bounded promise we can keep, rather than an open-ended one we would have to hedge.
Any seam, hem, button, tie, envelope or elastic that fails inside the first 300 washes - roughly six years of weekly washing. We repair it or replace the piece.
We do, both ways, inside the EU. For the United Kingdom and Switzerland we refund the outbound postage against a receipt.
Holes from a claw or a nail, bleach marks, scorching, the ordinary fading of a garment-dyed shade, pilling on sateen, or a sheet washed at 95 °C. The care page shows how to avoid each.
Email a photograph of the fault and your order reference. You have a reply, and usually a returns label, within one working day.
Separate from the guarantee: sleep on anything for up to 30 nights, wash it as often as you like, and send it back for a refund if it is not right. Washed returns are laundered and donated to a shelter, never resold.
If we cannot state them, the piece does not go on the site.
Percale, sateen, washed or linen, and what the weave does to how the cloth feels.
Thread count for the cottons, grams per square metre for the washed cotton and linen - the honest measure for each.
The wall of every fitted sheet in centimetres, and the mattress range it fits.
Buttons, envelope or housewife flap, and how long the flap is.
Woven and sewn inside the EU. Not “designed in”.
Creasing, snagging, fading, scratchiness, lint - whichever applies, written above the button.
Tell us how warm you sleep, how deep the mattress is and whether you own an iron. We answer with a weave and a wall depth, and if the honest answer is “not the one you were looking at”, we say so.
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