Nightfall 22 Momme Silk Pillowcase

Grade 6A mulberry silk at 22 momme. Dense enough to hang with real weight in the hand, fluid enough that it pours rather than folds, smooth enough that hair slides across it instead of catching. Momme is the honest number, because it measures weight, and weight is what separates silk that lasts a decade from silk that goes sheer in a season.

Cotton drinks. Over eight hours it draws moisture out of skin and hair and keeps it. Silk does not, which is why you wake with fewer sleep creases pressed into your cheek and far less frizz to undo before you have even had coffee.

French seams inside, so nothing frays and nothing scratches. A hidden envelope closure holds the pillow without a zip to snag a bracelet, a nail, or a strand of hair at two in the morning. Cool the moment you lie down, and still cool at four.

In daylight it reads as a quiet band of sheen across the bed, the deep low light colour the name comes from. Buy the pair if you turn your pillow in the night. You will.

• 100% mulberry silk, 22 momme
• Standard 20 x 30 in / 51 x 76 cm
• Hand wash cold, dry flat, cool iron in reverse