Pillowcases

Start with the fabric, since it's the bit your face actually touches. Percale for cool sleepers, sateen for a silky finish, flannel for cold months. Then check the size against the pillows you already own.

A pillowcase is a small purchase that makes a daily difference. Buy spares. You'll thank yourself when one is in the wash.

Our pillowcases come in three sizes. The rectangular 50×75 cm fits the most common pillow across Europe, Japan, Brazil, the UK (Standard), and US/AU/CA (Queen). The long 51×94 cm fits UK Superking and US/AU/CA King pillows. Square pillows take either the 65×65 cm or the 80×80 cm depending on your pillow size — both are common across European and Japanese bedding.

If you bought your pillows from us, the cases match automatically. If you bought elsewhere, measure your pillow and round up if it falls between sizes — a slightly roomier case sits cleaner than a tight one.

Percale is crisp and cool, the everyday workhorse. Sateen is silkier and slightly warmer, the closest feel to a hotel pillow. Flannel is brushed cotton, soft and warm, the one you reach for in winter.

If you sleep hot, start with percale. If you want luxury, sateen. If your bedroom runs cold, flannel makes the bed feel three degrees warmer without changing anything else.

Every Marshmellow pillowcase is woven and finished in Portugal, in the same Lintexport mill we've been running since 1967. That continuity is the reason our cotton softens with each wash instead of thinning.

Wash on a cool to warm cycle (30-40°C) with mild detergent, no bleach, no fabric softener (it coats the fibres and reduces breathability). Tumble dry on low or line dry. Iron percale if you want the crisp hotel finish, but sateen looks best straight from the dryer.

It's the cotton, and the depth behind it. Most luxury pillowcases come from brands that buy fabric and resell it. Ours come from a mill that makes the cotton from scratch, in Portugal, since 1967.

The result is colour that holds, weave that keeps its hand, and seams that don't go after a year. Bedding the way it used to be made.

For our purposes, yes. Pillow covers and pillowcases both describe the cotton case that goes over the pillow itself. We use both terms across the site, and everything in this collection is sized to fit standard European or Iberian pillows.