What Are They: Pillowcase vs Pillow Sham vs Cushion

Many customers doubt that what are the differences among pillowcases, pillow shams and cushions. It seems that they are a little same about the looks. Actually, it is hard to tell from each other, and their functions are the same to some extent. Following are the photos of these three products. Some interpretation are added to help customers get a clear image. 

Pillowcases are classified into 2 styles: Terse pillowcases without edge; Oxford Pillowcases that have beautiful flanges. Both are used for placing under head. Silk pillowcase is a big protector for sleep quality. Besides, silk is beneficial for skin and hair. That's the reason why ladies like to sleep with silk sheets. 

Oxford Pillowcases

Lilysilk call their pillowcases with edges Oxford Pillowcases, which are crafted from 100% pure mulberry silk. This style is much more luxurious to bed decor. But it is the personal taste to decide which style suits your home theme, as long as you use the silk ones. 

Here is the Alina Oxford Pillowcases, which are exquisitely designed with embroidered silk on the front face. The flower pattern is inspired by the Chinese ancient royal styles which are popular home and abroad. 

Terse Pillowcases

This pillowcase is simple and clean, without edges. Many modern housewives in American like this style. Life is simple, time is precious, and pillowcase is tidy. Lilysilk offers different momme weights silk pillowcases, such as the 19mm ones, 22mm ones, and 25mm ones. 

Pillow Shams

It is also known as "decorative pillowcases". 

Unlike the typical pillowcase, the pillow sham is often open in the middle of the back, with slightly overlapped fabric.

Because they turn regular pillows into “decorative pillows,”  people don’t usually sleep directly on pillows covered by a pillow sham. Instead these may be placed behind pillows with pillowcases when one is sleeping, or they may simply be removed from the bed. When making a bed, pillow sham covered pillows often are placed in front of pillows in pillowcases.

The benefits to using a pillow sham is that it adds decoration to the bed, but is more useful than specially purchased decorative pillows. 

A cushion is a soft bag of some ornamental material, stuffed with wool, hair, feathers, polyester staple fiber, non-woven material, or even paper torn into fragments. It may be used for sitting or kneeling upon, or to soften the hardness or angularity of a chair or couch.

We always want to hold something by arm when we are lonely, or sad, or when we are watching TV. The touch feeling of these cushions decide the mood we hold in. So it is important to hold a fine fabric cushions. Lilysilk provides the best quality silk cushion covers to cover your cushion at affordable prices. No hesitation to buy the silk one, the benefits can been touched soon.