1. “MATERIAL PLANNING: BEDDING,
LINENS, AND UNIFORMS”
M.C.M. MORALES

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Generate purchase specifications for bedding,
including sheets, pillows, mattress pads, blankets
and bedspreads.
 Develop purchase criteria for table linens, including
proper size, fabric content, and method of
construction.
 Generate standards of selection for employee
uniforms.
 Generate criteria for bath linens for different classes
of hotels.

3. “BEDDING “
 Encompasses all materials used in the making
of a bed.
 This includes sheets, pillowcases, blankets,
pillows, bedspreads, dust ruffles, comforters
and matters covers.

4. BEDDINGS

5. “SHEETS AND PILLOWCASES”
 For many years, people believed that a quality hotel
should change guest linens daily.
 Today, environmentally responsible hotels leave
that choice up to the guest.
 These linen reuse program can save water, and
energy and may even also prevent additional
laundry chemical into the enviroment.

6. FABRIC MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
 Majority of hotels use a cotton/ polyester (Dacron)
blend.
 Cotton/ polyester blends are more durable than
straight cotton.
 After 100 launderings, cotton loses 35 to 40 percent of
its tensile strength.

7. FABRIC MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
 Blends are more economical to launder.
 They will retain 15 to 50 percent less water than a full
cotton sheet
Cotton fibers in a sheet can be either combed or carded
before spinning

8. SIZE
 Two sheets measurements:
 Torn sheet- the size of the sheet before hemming.
 Finished sheets- has a top and bottom hem
o Fitted Sheets are never used in commercial applications
because they tear at their corners
o Standard Sheets are more flexible and larger standard
sheets can be substituted for smaller sheets

9. BED SHEETS

10. BLANKETS
 It is an insulator ; it keeps body heat in and cold air
out.
 The best blankets light in weight for comfort, but
at the same time it should be a highly effective
thermal insulator.

11. FABRIC MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
 Blankets have extremely high heat retention.
 Synthetic such as polyester, acrylics and nylon.
 Woven blankets are normally expensive

12. BLANKET

13. BEDSPREADS, COMFORTERS & DUST
RUFFLES
 The bed is the focal point in most guestrooms.
 Should complement the colors and other design
elements in the room.
There are two main styles of bedspreads:
• Tailored spreads- fit the corners of the mattress
snugly
• Throw spreads- bulge at the corners at the foot of the
bed
Shams- are pillow covers that match the fabric used in the
bedspread.

14. BEDSPREADS, COMFORTERS & DUST
RUFFLES

15. DUST RUFFLES

16. FABRIC MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
 Most hotels would prefer to have a washable
bedspread fabric.
 Dust ruffles are often cotton/ polyester blend
products.

17. SIZE
 Coverlets are easier to handle and they fit better
into the washer and dryer.
 Duvet Covers are now preferred over any other bed
covering in the better hotels.

19. PILLOWS
 Some prefer soft pillows, and others prefer hard
pillows.
 One camp holds that to be truly comfortable a
pillow must be filled with goose down, whereas
others contend that polyester will do just as well.

20. PILLOWS

21. PILLOWS
 Natural fills
 Standard by which all other fills are measured is down --
- specifically goose down from the European variety of
goose.
 Using goose down alone to fill a pillow is very
expensive, so the larger down feathers from ducks are
blended together with the goose down.
 Down feathers are found only in the most upscale
hotels.

22. MATTRESS COVERS
 Serves two purposes:
 They provide a padded layer between the guest and the
mattress, making for a more restful sleeps.
 They protect the mattress from stains resulting from
spills and from incontinent or sick guest.
* Mattress should be changed whenever the guests
checks out.

23. QUILTED PADS
 All cotton quilted pads are very expensive
 One problem associated with quilted pads is the
tendency of the diagonal threads to break after a
few washings.
 All cotton pads tend to shrink 15 to 20 percent.

24. FELT PADS
 Preferred pads for hotels is the 100 percent
polyester.
 The pad does not pucker or become lumpy.
 Also far less expensive and moisture proofed.

25. VINYL COVERS
 Are more appropriate for hospital applications.
 The new generation of vinyl covers can even be
washed like cloth and can be sterilized.

27. BATH AND TABLE LINENS
 The quality of a hotel’s bath and table linens is a
remarkably accurate indicator of the hotel’s class
and price level.
 The thicker the towels, the more expensive the
accommodations.

28. FABRIC MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
 Standard hotel bath linen is a terry cloth towel that
is a blend of cotton/ polyester fibers.
 Terry cloth towels are woven on a loom.
 Ground warp- the fibers running lengthwise in the
towel
Usually a blend of two parts polyester and one part cotton.
Pile Warp- is the yarn running lengthwise in the towel that
makes the terry loops on both sides of the towels'
surface.

29. SIZE
 The standard size for a good quality towel is
25”x50”.
 An average size for the face towel is 16”x27”.
 Bath Mat will measure 22”x34”
 Towels and washcloths can be found in larger or
smaller sizes than the above recommendations