Please - Where can I find thick crisp cotton sheets?

[Burningbush]

I am seeking the holy grail of thick cotton crispy bed linen.
Words such as good value, smooth, and soft turn me right off. Words like wrinkly, heavy, rough, stiff, Yes yes, that's what I'm after, at least where bed linen is concerned. I recently purchased 200 thread count cotton percale sheets from the White Company, and find them disappointingly thin. Of course, by the time sheets have been unfurled from their packets, it's too late to return them. Please help.

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The Linen Cupboard.
200 thread count will feel rubbish. 600 thread Egyptian Cotton is your friend.

King of Cotton.
The 1000 thread count practically stands up by itself. Feels great but a struggle to iron.

I bought really thick, heavy, 100% duvet sets from IKEA. Maybe they have sheets as well?

Costco and John Lewis.

We got a really nice 800 thread count from next. Its really silky feeling and looks great. also have an 800 and a 1000 thread count from house of fraser which as a pp has said is a bastard to iron. We also have king size and its so heavy I have to wash the duvet cover on its own!

TKMAX will have high thread count sheets in

How about looking for some vintage sheets? I've got several 1940s sheets with the wartime Utility mark, and they're thick and slightly rough.

You could also use some powder starch to beef up too-thin sheets.

Peter Reed. The 2 row

You can buy hotel sheets online, OP.

Northern Nights do some amazing sheets. The flannel ones are to die for. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, they are also rather pricey

They have sheets in TKMAX with 2500 thread count. I thought it was a typo as I didn't think thread counts went that high (not that I know anything about sheets)

Thank you to all who helped me with this. I am now something of an expert, or at least experienced, so I thought you might be interested in my findings.

I gave up finding thick cotton percale sheets. Excited by King of Cotton promise of self-supporting ones, but the website promised only soft and silky, which is not my thing, so I didn't go for it. The Secret Linen Store have percale cotton ones which are excellent value (better than many double the price, and much better than their equivalent at The White Company), but are a bit thin.

I veered onto linen. Crofts from John Lewis is thin (they'd say "fine"). Secret Linen Store is a grade up, and Soak and Sleep is maybe a small grade up on that. They are all good and linenny, but the prize so far goes to Ada and Ina. This is dense, heavy, with that lovely rough feeling - classy, nice. If money were no object, I would try The Linen Works. Great ethic (Buy less, buy well), and I feel sure that, with their sheets, you'd never need to buy another as long as you lived.

Finally, all the above have sales now and then, so patience pays.

Thanks again for the tips. Maybe I will find my fantasy cotton sheet one day, but for now, the budget for bed linen is spent.

I bought duvet covers for my kids from Pottery Barn Kids that is very thick and smooth, I wouldn’t say silky. In the UK they trade as West Elm. They are the ones with glow in the dark motifs on them though, not sure if the printing adds to the ‘stiffness’. They have a shop on Tottenham Court Road if you’re near London.

Might you prefer linen ones?

Ignore thread counts, they mean nothing. A 1000 thread count of extra thin threads could be thin whereas 600 thread count of quality thread could be thicker. This has caught me out! I have thick cotton sheets from Linear, they are very good quality, very heavy and crisp. Sanderson are not as good as Linear but still better than most.

I agree thread count doesn’t mean what it use to.

Thank you OP for this feedback!