Many people find the fold in the middle of our fitted sheets strange, but it is not a flaw, but rather a quality feature. The so-called ‘front fold’ is created during production and stands for a particularly high-quality production process. It gradually disappears when the fitted sheet is used. Here we explain why the bow fold exists and what it has to do with good quality.
Finishing a fitted sheet
The textile finishing of our fabrics is a highly complex process, because the special softness, the even, tightly woven surface and the elasticity must be retained despite washing, bleaching, dyeing, drying, etc.
To achieve this, our sheets undergo a specially developed fabric finishing process. The fabric is treated in a particularly gentle manner in a tube.
This means that we knit our fabrics on large circular knitting machines to form an extremely long tube. This tube is rolled flat into large bales. When a round tube is flattened, two edges are created on the left and right – one of these edges later runs as a line across the finished bed sheet.
Our fitted sheets are then finished while still in tube form. This means they are dyed, enriched with aloe vera, etc.
Now the front fold comes into play
Only before the next step, the manufacturing, i.e. the sewing of the fitted sheets, is the fabric unrolled from the roll and cut open at one edge. This one fold is thus gone.
Imagine a flattened cardboard roll: after a few days, you cut this flat cardboard roll along one fold and lay it flat on the table. You now have a rectangle in front of you with a long fold in the middle.
This is how the ‘front fold’ or ‘front mark’ on our fitted sheets is created. A fine fold approximately in the middle of our sheets. But don't worry, unlike the cardboard roll, the fold in our fitted sheets will disappear with washing and use.