Taking care of your bed linens

Carol O’Callaghan gets advice from the experts on choosing, maintaining and laundering bed linen

Is there anything as comforting as slipping into a bed made up with clean linens just pulled off the washing line, having fluttered all day on a summer breeze?

Despite the best efforts of scented candle manufacturers, fresh air fragrance cannot be replicated, nor the feeling of those freshly laundered sheets and pillowcases to sooth a weary body and mind.