This is the final bit to making my bedroom a haven, the linen is beautiful, soft and cool. I washed it prior to putting it on the bed and its soft and buttery and gives a relaxed but somehow structured, but definitely luxe. I had been lurking on the Cultiver site for a long time and then my husband found it in a store, he immediately wanted the doona and sheets, I agreed to the doona and pillowslips. Then I purchased the valance and the silk pillowslips. I am now lurking on the site for the sheets, as they breathe and if your in your 50's...you need something cool and soft. This linen range is it.