A person spends around one-third of their life in bed, and making that third as comfortable as possible has a lot to do with their choice of bed sheet. Having a great mattress, or your ideal duvet and pillows can be negatively affected if the sheets you’re covering them with are wrong. But the variety of different options, from material to weave to thread count, can make the bed sheet buying process seem insurmountably complicated. Cotton, polyester, fiber, Egyptian cotton, lined, silk, modale, Tentacle etc. various types of material available in the market. Polyester fibers were developed in the mid-20th century. It’s a synthetic polymer fiber and is totally man made. Linen is made from the flax plant. It’s an ancient fabric, and was even used to wrap Egyptian mummies. Egyptian or Pima cotton are both a more luxurious type of cotton. Cotton is a very popular choice when it comes to bed sheets, and has been used for at least 7000 years. It’s made from a fluffy fiber grown on the cotton plant.