We slept around Quince linen sheets are the best for both hot and cold sleepers

I sleep hot; my partner, conversely, sleeps cold.It’s the perennial battle waged in countless New York bedrooms, and typically, most bedding forces someone to pick a losing side.For New York Post’s Made It Here Awards for the best sheets, I sacrificed my own slumber, spending 126 nights testing nine sets of cooling white queen sheet sets — linen, cotton percale and bamboo — across the sweltering summer and the fickle fall. Every contender endured 14 nights on the mattress, intentionally broken into two distinct seven-night stints.

Then, every set went through the brutal reality of five washes and five dryer cycles at our less-than-delicate neighborhood laundromat. Our bedroom offers no central air, no peace, no mercy.We rely on a single window unit and an oscillating fan or a hissing radiator once the building’s heat finally kicks on.Yet, one set managed the impossible: it kept a hot sleeper cool, and it kept a cold sleeper cozy beneath the very same comforter.

Surprisingly, it also happened to be the absolute cheapest linen option in the entire lineup, beating out Cultiver and Sijo.The Quince European Linen Sheet Set softened noticeably after just one spin in the wash, never once left me stewing in my own sweat, and asks only $144 for a queen set that includes the flat sheet, which is not a guarantee these days.Crafted from 100% European flax, Quince’s European Linen Sheet Set arrives prewashed and garment-washed, featuring a fitted sheet expertly rated for mattresses up to 16 inches deep. What does that mean exactly? When linen bedding is both pre-washed at the fabric level and garment-washed as a finished set, it eliminates the stiff, scratchy break-in period of raw flax while ensuring sheets actually fit your bed long-term. Pre-washing the raw fabric blocks the material’s massive natural tendency to shrink, stabilizing the fibers before they are even cut.

Following that up with a specialized garment wash after assembly relaxes every single s...