is down feathers same as plain down?, i ask because ive seen websites that sell down and other sell down feathers, same or not? and can you use down feathers for top and under quilts or will the feathers poke through?
is down feathers same as plain down?, i ask because ive seen websites that sell down and other sell down feathers, same or not? and can you use down feathers for top and under quilts or will the feathers poke through?
Down is diferent from feathers. I don't kow how to explane it, but they are diferent.
A feather is a well-defined thing, like you'd see laying on the ground when a bird drops it. Down is a fluffy cluster, mostly spherical.
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oh ok so not the same, thanks guys. saved me from buying the wrong thing lol
Yeah, you for sure * don't* want feathers. They probably say "down feathers" to attract you with the word down (which obviously worked), basically feathers aren't good for gear...they poke through and tear the lightweight material we use.
Perfectly fine for bedding and furniture, where you have a heavy, tightly woven material to keep the feathers in there, but not for our camping gear and thin light weight materials.
There is another possibility but equally undesirable. They may refer to a mixture of down and feathers. All the downside of feathers with no real upside of the down. There are also different types of down. Duck down is an inferior product to goose down. Often the generic "down" is indicative of an inferior product for our purposes.
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Also, in addition to feathers poking out of gear, they will not give you as much loft as down will (and therefore less warmth for the weight). You will commonly see down rated by fill-power (fp) (I think it is the number of cubic inches one ounce of down will fill...please, anyone correct me if I'm wrong) . Since down and feathers are difficult to separate the higher the fill-power (better down:feather ratio) the more expensive the product usually is. That is why you will see 500fp for MUCH cheaper than you will find 800 or 900 fp you see in high quality gear.
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