Hi everyone,
I'm interested in having a lightweight down comforter made. This would be for home use–most home comforters are way too warm for me. I'd like my comforter to have a similar pattern to the Montbell UL down jacket. That was the first jacket I'd seen with a tight grid pattern but now I'm seeing more and more of them with small sewn-through cells.
Does anyone know how this is done? Do they stuff a large area with down and then simply sew through it to create the cells? Or do they stuff each tiny cell in turn and then sew it in place? I can't imagine how they'd measure such tiny amounts of down.
Most recently I saw the Mountain Hardwear Nitrous jacket. The women's version has a swirly sewn-through pattern around the collar bone. It kind of seems like they would have to have sewn this in place. Yet I didn't see down pulling through the needle holes like I'd expect.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. And any volunteers to take on a commission like this would be great too!
