I have been sleeping on feather pillows for most of my life, and there are necessary tricks to keep feathers inside and the pillows fluffed. Feather pillows can last a decade if treated right. In the old days, they were encased in pillow ticking. Today they are still encased in tightly woven covers (preferably 100% cotton- which there are). My trucks include not one, but TWO tightly woven pillow sacks-the kind that zip. These extra cases provide a barrier that wayward feathers cannot escape, and scratch or leave unwanted feathers in bed. I swear this works! Also, use a high thread count pillow case on top of the pillow sacks. It is not necessary to wash the sacks often at all. The inside sack needs washing rarely, and the outside sack, a little more. Launder the regular pillowcase with your sheets. Next: Do fluff your pillow in the dryer when you first get it. Then hand fluff your pillow as often as you need to. (I turn mine in its side -hidden piping on top of the mattress, and make a dent in the middle of your pillow for your neck) I love a good feather pillow, and these were good and the price was good. It I could afford a much much much more expensive higher down count, I would, but with my system, I am comfortable, sleep well, and know that as time goes in, some if the larger feathers will break down inside of the extra pillow cases, and become more down like on their own. I'm a happy customer, and you can be too. Read more
Ive bought these twice, 4 pillows all together. They are a great quality for a good price! Read more
Not as soft as I expected but decent pillows nonetheless Read more
Best pillow I have bought in a long time. Made well and perfect amount of filling. Read more
Very very firm. Not what I was expecting... Read more
Okay, I have been on an eight year search for the right pillow--aka any pillow that provides the right balance of support and comfort, and where I don't wake up with a chronically sore neck. It's been a long journey, but I think it has finally come to an end. Which is good, because I don't think my linen closet can hold a single additional discarded pillow. There are about 20 stacked in there. I started with tempurpedic pillows which worked great until a year or two later when suddenly that stopped being comfortable. Switched to a different style within the same brand--nope, they just didn't work for me anymore. Then started all the others. Memory foam. Shredded memory foam. Cervical neck pillows, dog bone pillows, extra support pillows, some sort that was made of molded memory foam and was designed for back sleeping in the middle and side sleeping on the wings (which I took a knife to in order to deepen the head cavity), rolled up towel, rolled up towel stuffed into various other pillows... You name it, I've tried it. And then four and ten months later went back and tried it again. And still, chronically sore neck which chiropractors and massage couldn't even fix. By the time I was 15 or so pillows in, I knew what I wanted: solid support directly under my neck that was firm enough, yet soft. Something that was either molded to the exact shape of my neck (and could work back or side since I sleep on both), or that I could mold into the right shape. Then... Staying in someone's guest room, I slept on their old feather pillow. I'd always avoided feather pillows, because I'd been forced to use an understuffed one as a child during a visit to my grandmother's house. It was like sleeping with your head on a flat mat, so I said never again. But I tried this one and--it molded! I could grab a hold of it and squish it into the shape I needed and it was soft yet supportive. I asked them if I could take it home and slept on it for about a year, but the problem was that it had a tendency to spring back to a flat shape if you moved or adjusted very much at all. I'd readjust in the middle of the night and end up with nothing packed under my neck and, thus, another neck ache in the morning. So for Christmas, I bought myself these new pillows in the queen size gussetted style. They're everything I've been looking for. Soft, supportive, moldable. They don't mat down or turn into a hard block under your head. They have a slight "spring back" but the pillow doesn't unmold itself when you move, it just poofs a little and gets a little fuller. I can fold them double or scrunch them up and they 80% stay how I put them. They're pretty much the one. And I can say "the one" because I only have one now since my husband stole the other! If you have resonated with my pillow journey, give these a try. You won't be disappointed. Read more
Be prepared to get pricked often after a month or two of used. I also experienced a noticeable amount of feathers sticking out from these pillows, resulting in having to pull them out. The support is not for me, I am a side sleeper and the shape retains little to no fluff. I have tried the gusset style of the same brand and the same results as far as comfort, support and fluff - I will say that the gusset style did not prick me from exposing feathers. Read more
I was actually very impressed with these pillows. Read more
