{ "id": "white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard", "sku": "white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard", "title": "White 22 Momme Mulberry Silk Pillowcase, Standard", "slug": "white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard", "price": 51.99, "currency": "USD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "silk-pillowcases", "category_label": "Silk Pillowcases", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": null, "images": [ "https://mulberrysilk.store/dropship-images/silk-pillowcases/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard/main-white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard.jpg", "https://mulberrysilk.store/dropship-images/silk-pillowcases/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard-2.jpg", "https://mulberrysilk.store/dropship-images/silk-pillowcases/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard-3.jpg", "https://mulberrysilk.store/dropship-images/silk-pillowcases/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard-4.jpg", "https://mulberrysilk.store/dropship-images/silk-pillowcases/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard-5.jpg" ], "description_short": "Made from 100% mulberry silk on both sides with a 600 thread count weave and a hidden zipper, it slips over a standard 20 x 26 inch pillow and feels cool against your cheek all night.", "description": "The small annoyance nobody names\n\nThere is a particular kind of morning where you look in the mirror and your face has a line on it. A soft crease running from your cheekbone toward your jaw, exactly where the fabric bunched up. It fades after an hour, usually. Then there is the hair. You went to bed with it brushed and it is now doing something structural on one side.\n\nNeither of these is a crisis. But both come from the same place, which is the fabric you have been pressing your head into for the last eight hours. Standard cotton pillowcases are absorbent and slightly rough at the fiber level. Hair catches. Skin drags. The fabric gathers into ridges because it does not slide.\n\nSilk does slide. That is the whole pitch, and it is a pretty simple one.\n\nWhat silk is actually doing\n\nSilk fibers are long and smooth compared to cotton, which is made of shorter, spiralled fibers with a rougher surface under magnification. When you lie on a woven silk fabric, your skin and hair move across it rather than gripping it. Turn your head at night and the hair goes with you instead of being tugged in the opposite direction.\n\nThe fabric also feels cool when you first lie down. Silk does not hold heat against you the way a heavy cotton flannel does, which is why a lot of people switch to silk bedding in summer and then never switch back.\n\nThat is the honest version. Silk is a smooth, cool, lightweight fabric. It is not a treatment and it is not a cure for anything. It is a nicer surface to spend a third of your life on.\n\nReading the numbers: momme and thread count\n\nTwo numbers show up on every silk pillowcase listing, and only one of them is especially useful.\n\nMomme is the traditional measure of silk fabric weight. You will see 16, 19, 22 and occasionally 25 or 30. Lower numbers mean a lighter, thinner fabric. It will still feel smooth, but it wears through faster under nightly use and tends to look a bit flimsy. Higher numbers mean a denser weave with more silk in it.\n\nTwenty two momme is where most people land. It has real substance when you pick it up, it drapes properly over a pillow instead of clinging, and it handles weekly washing without going sheer at the corners. Heavier than that and you start paying considerably more for a difference you may not notice with your eyes closed.\n\nThread count is the count of yarns in a square inch. This pillowcase is listed at 600. With cotton, thread count is the headline figure. With silk, it is secondary, because the fiber itself does more work than the yarn density does. Useful to know, not the thing to decide on.\n\nIf you are comparing listings and one shows momme and the other only shows thread count, the momme figure tells you more.\n\nBoth sides matter more than you would think\n\nHere is a detail worth checking on any silk pillowcase before you buy. Some are silk on the sleeping face and something cheaper on the back. Polyester, usually, or a cotton blend. It keeps the price down and it works fine until you flip the pillow at 3am and land on a completely different texture.\n\nThis one is mulberry silk on both faces. Front and back, same fabric. You can turn the pillow over as many times as you like and nothing changes.\n\nThe best double sided silk pillowcase is simply one where you never have to think about which way round it is, and that is a small thing that turns out to matter a lot in practice.\n\nGetting the size right\n\nThis is the single most common ordering mistake, so it is worth two minutes of your time.\n\nUS bed pillows come in three main sizes. Standard is 20 x 26 inches. Queen is 20 x 30 inches. King is 20 x 36 inches. They are all the same width, which is why people mix them up, and the length difference is where it goes wrong.\n\nThis pillowcase is standard, 20 x 26 inches. Go pull the tag on the pillowcase you are using now, or take a tape measure to the pillow itself. A queen pillow will not fit into a standard case. A standard pillow in a queen case will slouch and bunch at one end.\n\nIt also ships as a single piece. If you want the bed to look symmetrical, that means two.\n\nWhy white\n\nWhite is the path of least resistance. It goes with every sheet set you already own, it suits a guest room, and it does not clash with a patterned duvet. If you are buying the best white silk pillowcase as a gift, you are also removing the risk of guessing wrong about someone's bedroom palette.\n\nThe trade off is that white shows things. Makeup transfer, hair oil, a tinted serum you did not quite let absorb. None of it is permanent if you deal with it quickly, but white does ask you to stay on top of the laundry in a way that a charcoal case does not.\n\nGive your skincare and hair products a few minutes to soak in before your head hits the pillow. That solves most of it.\n\nLooking after it\n\nSilk is less fragile than its reputation suggests, but it does not like three things in particular. Heat, bleach, and being wrung out.\n\nWash it in cool water. Either hand wash it in the sink with a mild detergent made for delicates, or run it through a gentle machine cycle inside a mesh laundry bag so it does not wrap around other items. Skip the fabric softener, which coats the fibers and takes away the slip you paid for. Skip bleach entirely, and be careful with enzyme based stain removers.\n\nTo dry, press the water out gently or roll it in a clean towel. Do not twist it. Hang it or lay it flat somewhere out of direct sun, and it will be dry surprisingly fast. The dryer is where silk pillowcases go to die, so leave it out of the plan.\n\nIf you want to iron it, use the lowest heat setting, work on the reverse side, and do it while the fabric is still a little damp.\n\nOnce a week is a sensible washing rhythm. More if you use leave in hair products. The easiest way to actually keep that up is to own two, so one is on the bed while the other is in the basket. It also roughly halves the wear on each one.\n\nWho this suits\n\nIf you wake up with crease lines on your face, if your hair frizzes overnight, if you sleep hot, or if you simply like the feel of nice bedding, this is a low effort upgrade. It takes thirty seconds to put on and it changes something you experience every single night.\n\nIf you want the best silk pillowcase for hair specifically, the combination here (22 momme, both sides silk, smooth charmeuse finish) is the configuration most people are describing when they recommend one.\n\nIt also makes an easy gift. Plain white, standard size, no guessing required.\n\nThe short version\n\nTwenty two momme mulberry silk, white, standard 20 x 26 inches, silk on both faces, hidden zipper, sold as one. Measure your pillow before you order, wash it cool, dry it out of the sun, and buy two if you want the bed to match.\n\nThat is really all there is to it.", "llm_summary": "This is a white silk pillowcase in standard size, measuring 20 x 26 inches, sold as a single piece. It is made from 100% mulberry silk on both sides, woven at 22 momme with a stated thread count of 600, in a solid white, modern style with no pattern. The closure is a hidden zipper. The listed care instructions allow hand washing or machine washing, and the recommended uses given are hair protection and skin protection. The package includes one silk pillowcase and no additional components.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; state consumer protection law and implied warranties for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Mulberry Silk Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://mulberrysilk.store/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard/", "canonical_url": "https://mulberrysilk.store/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard/", "json_url": "https://mulberrysilk.store/api/products/white-22-momme-silk-pillowcase-standard.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-12" }