Down Qualities

Nature is the best argument of them all.

Built on the principle of all feathers pulling together. A holow keel in the middle and hairlike branches at each side.

Goose and duckdown look very like delicate snowflakes. Approx. 1000 down feathers can be pressed into a single thimble. When released, they bounce back to their so-called filling volume. One million down feathers weigh just 1 kilogramme.

• Not all feathers are alike. Geese and ducks living in cold climatic zones require cold-repellent, "high tech" down with their counterparts in temperate Western Europe do not need. Artländer collects the best possible down at its branches in cold zones such as Siberia. The following is a list of just some of the top down qualities available sides Artlaenders own companies in East-Europe:

Siberian white Snowgoose® down, Goose down from the Ukrainian bread basket, Masurian white goose down (Poland), Baltic country goose down, Eiderdown from Iceland

• Feathers and down from waterfowl are also naturally water-repellent. This property ensures humidity dispersion and thus healthy microclimate in bed - another of the special features of feathers and down.

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