Single Sided Mulberry Silk Pillowcase with Polyester Back

The lamp goes off, your cheek lands on the pillow, and the silk face barely seems to press back.

This is a pillowcase built for the one side of the pillow your face actually touches. The maker cuts it to 48 by 74 cm, the standard bed pillow, and finishes it with a flat border all the way round, tracked by a fine grey piping that reads as a single quiet line against the colour. Every catalogue shot is the same staging: one case slipped over a pillow, a second draped loose across it so you can watch the fabric fall.

Read the maker product attributes panel before anything else, because it says something the overview does not: the fabric is 100 percent silk on the front and polyester on the back. That is what single sided means here. The mulberry silk covers the sleeping face, the polyester panel takes the reverse, and the edge macro shows it plainly, a silver silk face turning over onto a cream backing of a different fibre and a lower shine.

Key Benefits

• Mulberry Silk On The Sleeping Face The maker specifies 100 percent 6A grade mulberry silk for the front, and all ten colour options repeat that same grade inside their own names.
• Honest About The Reverse The back is polyester, stated by the maker attributes panel. Silk lands where your face does, a harder wearing panel goes where it does not.
• Standard 48 By 74 cm Cut Sized for a normal bed pillow, so it layers straight over the sheets you already own.
• Flat Bordered Edge With Piping A flange border runs round the case with a contrast grey pipe along the inner seam, visible on every colour in the gallery.
• Ten Colours, One Or Two Per Pack The maker names ten shades, and the pack option decides whether one case ships or two.

Best for: anyone who wants a genuine mulberry silk sleeping surface and would rather be told outright that the underside is polyester, plus anyone dressing a bed who wants the pillow head to carry a soft sheen.

Why It Works

A pillowcase only touches you on one side, and this one is built around that fact rather than around a spec sheet. The silk goes on the face, where its polished surface lets hair and skin travel over it instead of catching, and the polyester goes on the reverse, where it grips the pillow and survives being pulled on and off. The trade is real and it is the whole design: the mulberry silk sits exactly where your face lands, and the maker own attributes panel names the polyester back plainly.

Quick Product Facts: Sleeping face: 100 percent 6A grade mulberry silk; Reverse: polyester, per the maker attributes panel; Size: 48 by 74 cm, roughly 19 by 29 in; Weave: plain weave; Weight: the maker calls it 40 momme heavy silk and prints no gram figure; Edge: flat flange border with contrast grey piping; Colours: ten named shades; Pack: one case or two, set by the option; Care: gentle cold hand wash.

How It Fits Your Routine

Slip it over the pillow silk face up, which is the side carrying the colour and the shine, and leave the polyester panel underneath against the mattress. It takes a second to get right and it matters, because putting it on the wrong way up means sleeping on the polyester.

By morning the bed reads finished from the doorway. The flange border holds its shape where a plain case slumps, and the piping draws a clean line across the head of the bed whichever of the ten shades you picked.

Wash day is the part to take seriously. The maker asks for a silk or wool detergent or a neutral lotion, a gentle hand wash in cold water, no machine, no long soak and no wringing. Shake it out, smooth it flat and dry it somewhere ventilated and out of the sun. Silk that gets machined and wrung comes back dull, and no care routine undoes that afterwards.

FAQ

Is the whole pillowcase silk? The sleeping face is 100 percent mulberry silk, and the reverse is polyester, exactly as the maker product attributes panel sets it out. That single sided build is deliberate: the silk goes where your cheek lands, and a tougher polyester panel takes the underside that grips the pillow and takes the wear.

What does the 40 momme figure mean, and the 40mm on the sheet? Momme is the weight unit for silk, and one maker panel does read 40 momme heavy silk. The 40mm printed elsewhere is that same figure mistranslated, since a 40 millimetre pillowcase would be four centimetres thick. So the figure that counts is the 40 momme heavy silk weight the maker gives for the face.

Is it gentle on skin and hair? Yes, that is the appeal of a silk sleeping face. Mulberry silk is a smooth, low friction fibre, so hair glides across it instead of catching and dragging, and your skin rests against a soft surface through the night. Many people find they wake with smoother hair and fewer of the deep creases a rougher cotton case can press into the cheek.

How does it close, and what comes in the box? It slips straight over the pillow, with no zip shown on any of the photographs. The packing list is one silk pillowcase, and the pack option is where you choose one case or two. Nothing else ships: the pillow itself, the sheets and the duvet in the styled shots are staging.