Piano Key Cotton Bedding Set

A run of piano keys crossing the bed with scattered music notes above it, printed in clean black and white. It is a themed set that manages not to be twee, because the drawing is graphic and precise rather than illustrative, and the palette is strictly monochrome. In a teenager's room, a music student's flat or a spare room that needs some personality, it does a lot of work for one purchase.

It is made from one hundred per cent cotton rather than a poly blend, which is the difference you notice on a warm night: cotton breathes and moves moisture away, so the bed does not become clammy by two in the morning. Cotton also takes a crisp print well, which matters for a design built on hard black edges against white. It softens with every wash rather than pilling, and it will still look right in three years.

The set includes a duvet cover measuring two hundred by two hundred and twenty centimetres in the double, with coordinating pillowcases at sixty by seventy. Single and king sizes are also available. Wash at forty degrees with like colours, tumble dry low, and iron on a medium setting if you want the print at its sharpest. Keep it away from bleach-based stain removers, which will lift the black.

• 100% cotton duvet cover set
• Duvet cover 200 x 220 cm in double, pillowcases 60 x 70 cm
• Available in single, double and king
• Monochrome piano key and music note print
• Breathable, softens with washing
• Machine washable at 40 degrees
• Tumble dry low, iron on medium
• Do not use bleach-based stain removers