St. Geneve Vintage Venice Pre-Wash

The Venice Collection consists of a solid cotton percale available in many popular colour tones, genuine Italian woven Egyptian Cotton available at a great price.

Genuine Giza 70 Egyptian Cotton

Although nearly every sheet package off the shelf today will say "Egyptian Cotton", you'll notice the percentage is conspicuously missing. The simple fact is that sheeting will be labelled as "Egyptian Cotton" when the cotton was either grown in Egypt (keeping in mind most cotton grown in Egypt is actually American Uplands Cotton) or by simply blending in one or two percent genuine Egyptian Cotton species with common American Uplands.

Genuine Italian Fabric

Nearly every fabric we offer from St. Geneve is woven at a mill in Italy which has passed down through several generations. The mill only weaves fabrics from genuine 100% Giza 70 Egyptian Cotton. Giza 70 is essentially one sub-species of Egyptian Cotton and is considered the best of all 100+ types of Egyptian Cotton.

About Thread Count

With cotton sheeting the highest possible thread count is just over 400. When a fabric is listed as anything higher than 400, red flags must go up. This means they are actually quoting strand count and this is not the appropriate method. For example we have sheeting materials with 600 or 1,015 strand count. Transparency is important to us, and as such we correctly market these as 300 and 380 thread count.

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Wash and dry at moderate temperatures. Always wash white, coloured and dark fabrics separately. Use a gentle cycle without any other types of articles. Please do not overload the machine and never use the "water saver" setting. These fabrics will last much better if they have lots of water to swim around in.

Using a specialty detergent such as the wonderful Le Blanc Linen Wash® is always a good investment. This product does not contain bleach, caustics, phosphates, is pH neutral and biodegradable.