Quilting for Retail Bedding – More Than Just a Pretty Pattern

Published 20th May 2024

It’s easy to think that the quilting on the top of retail bedding is just a pretty pattern to make the mattress look good and perhaps sell for a little bit more. However, there is much more to mattress quilting than just aesthetics. Here at Redwood, we understand the many advantages of quilted mattresses for our clients and their customers.

First impressions

Of course, quilting does play a part in making your mattress look more attractive in the retail bedding store. The more intricate and detailed the pattern, the more the mattress is perceived as being a quality product that has been made with care – making the customer more inclined to pay a premium price.

Many manufacturers will use unique or signature quilting patterns to differentiate their retail bedding from that of their competitors. This helps them to create an individual, branded look, even when the underlying mattress product is essentially the same.

But as anyone who has ever bought a new mattress will tell you, looks are only the start of the decision-making process. After all, your mattress will be covered by a sheet the vast majority of the time, so how it looks in your bedroom is really not that important.

Enhanced quality

A much more relevant part of mattress quilting is the ways in which it improves the mattress. Quilting allows retail bedding manufacturers to incorporate a number of different materials within the layers of the mattress cover, such as cotton, wool or other fibres, foam or memory foam or even specialist gels.

These materials give the mattress added qualities, compared to an unquilted mattress, such as:

• Improved comfort – quilting adds a softer, plush layer to the top of the mattress. This makes it more comfortable to sleep on and protects the surface from springs and other components below.
• More even weight distribution – a cushioned or padded quilted surface spreads your weight and reduces problems with pressure points and even bed sores.
• Increased durability – quilted mattress covers will hold their shape for much longer. The quilting prevents the fabric from bunching, stretching or sagging and keeps the comfortable substrate layers in place, even after years of use.
• More regulated temperature – when cotton or wool is used in the substrate layers of a quilted mattress, they can help to keep you cool as you sleep. Specialist gels and latex layers can increase this comfort level for particularly warm sleepers.

Quilting experts

Here at Redwood, we offer a comprehensive range of quilting services for retail bedding, using the very latest, state-of-the-art equipment. We can work with any budget, to any specification, anywhere along the quality spectrum, from low-cost, entry-level mattresses to the very highest quality, luxury retail bedding.

We work with a number of leading brands in the retail bedding sector, helping them to create products they can be proud of. Retail bedding from Redwood helps them to build their brand, their sales and their reputation.

Looking for a retail bedding manufacturer?

If you’re looking for a retail bedding manufacturer, Redwood are here to help. Our expert team will work with you to understand exactly what you need from the quilting process. Whether you already have detailed specifications, or you need guidance on what is possible, we can deliver exactly what you need.

Once your design is finalised, we pass it on to our production team who have extensive quilting capabilities, including cutting edge wide-width panel quilting technology, as well as continuous, multi-needle machines, simulated side-stitch machines and multi-head embroidery machines for product logos and branding. With extensive experience in retail bedding manufacturing, Redwood can delivery exactly what you need on time and on budget, anywhere in the world.

To find out more about Redwood’s quilting expertise, and to see what we could do to help you with your retail bedding manufacturing, get in touch with our friendly team today. With our expert team on the case, you’ll sleep so much easier with a Redwood mattress.