Your Owner's Guide
Your Circadian Owner's Guide

Welcome home to your cotton pillow.

The one fiber pillow that holds its shape for years instead of months, and opens odorless because every layer is certified organic. Everything it does, and how to keep it supportive for the long run.

Handmade in New JerseyGOTS certified, license 1022960-night trial
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What you brought home

The pillow you stop replacing.

Most pillows start fine and slowly lose their shape, until one morning you wake up in a divot and buy another one. Cotton breaks that cycle, because of density. It is the most tightly packed fiber fill we make, so your head compresses it slowly and evenly over years instead of weeks.

Waking up rested with the Circadian organic cotton pillow

Supportive and familiar from the first night.

Cotton is the easiest pillow to move to. Lie down and it feels like what a pillow is supposed to feel like, with nothing to break in and nothing to get used to. The support you feel the first night is the support you feel a year later, so you stop waking up in a crater and stop shopping for the next pillow.

0 lbof tightly packed fiber, denser than wool or kapok, so it compresses slowly and holds.
Why it lasts

Most pillows die in months. Density is why this one doesn't.

A pillow goes flat when soft, short fibers pack down under the nightly weight of your head. Cotton resists that longer than any fiber fill we make, and the reason is in the fiber, not a coating that wears off.

01

Long-staple fiber

Each fiber runs 1.25 inches or longer, about twice standard cotton, so it spins into stronger, more resilient clusters that hold their loft.

02

Slow, even compression

The dense pack settles over months and years, not weeks, so the height that cradles your neck tonight is still there next year.

03

A zipper for the long run

When the loft finally does drop, you add fill through the side and it is new again, instead of landfill.

Long-staple organic cotton fiber macro
Inside the pillow

Long-staple organic cotton. Nothing blended in.

The fiber inside is long-staple organic cotton, each strand 1.25 inches or longer. Longer fibers spin into stronger threads and lock into tighter, more resilient clusters, which is the whole reason the pillow holds under your head for years.

Most makers reach for short-staple cotton or blend in synthetic fiber to cut the cost. We do not. The cotton is the same cotton that came off the boll, with nothing bleached out, nothing brightened in, and no synthetic blended through it, so it reaches your face as plain clean fiber.

Fiber length
1.25 to 1.5 in
Density
Most tightly packed
Certified organic
Fill to thread
Setting it up

Shape it once, then leave it to work.

Adjusting the fill in the Circadian cotton pillow through the side zipper

Your pillow ships overstuffed by about 30 percent, because the room to remove fill is the whole point. You set the height on night one and the pillow you shape is yours to keep.

01

Unzip and dial it in

Open the side and remove cotton until the loft matches your position. Side keeps more, back goes medium, stomach goes thin. Keep what you pull out so you can add it back.

02

Work it loose once a month

Knead the fill by hand for a minute so the fibers redistribute. It is a two-minute habit that keeps the surface even and the support consistent.

03

Top up over the years

Air it in the sun a few times a year, and if the loft ever settles for good, add a handful of refill through the zipper rather than buying a whole new pillow.

Clean the whole way through

You breathe against it all night. It is certified organic from fill to thread.

Most cotton pillows are bleached with chlorine, treated with formaldehyde resins, and finished with stain repellents. You spend about a third of your life breathing the air six inches above whatever is left, so we made this one clean at every layer.

GOTS Certified10229Oregon Tilth · GOTS v7.0Verify in the registry

Most brands that call a pillow organic certify only the outer cover. Our Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certification covers the entire finished pillow, the fill, the cover, the thread, and the dye process, under public license GOTS-10229, audited by Oregon Tilth and searchable by anyone.

So none of those compounds went near it at any stage. The pillow opens odorless and stays that way, your lungs are not filtering off-gassed chemicals eight hours a night, and the fiber smells like cotton because that is all it is.

What you're not sleeping on

The list most pillow makers hope you never read.

None of it has ever been in a Circadian pillow.

Keep it for years

Wash the cover. Freshen the fill.

A cotton pillow asks for almost nothing, and the little it asks is what keeps it supportive long after other pillows flatten.

Everyday

The cover washes, the fill doesn't

Unzip and remove the cotton, then machine wash the cover cold on gentle and tumble dry low. Refill once it is fully dry.

Never machine wash the cotton fill itself. Water clumps and damages the fiber.

Every month

Work it loose by hand

A one-minute knead redistributes the fibers so the loft stays even and the pillow keeps its shape.

Spot-clean any small marks with cool water and a little mild soap.

Over the years

Air it, then refill it

Air it in indirect sun a few times a year. When the loft finally settles, a cotton refill brings it back to new.

Questions any time? Email jacob@circadianrest.com.

The rest of the bed

Made by the same hands, in the same New Jersey workshop, to the same standard.

One more thing

That's everything. Sleep well.

Anything at all, reply to any email from us or write to jacob@circadianrest.com. A real person in the workshop answers.

© Circadian · Handmade in New Jersey · 60-night trial, free returns both wayscircadianrest.com
Your Circadian Owner's Guide

Welcome home to your cotton pillow.

The one duvet that stays warm in winter and cool in summer, and that's easier on your allergies than the down or foam it replaces. Everything it does, and how to get years out of it.

Handmade in New JerseyGOTS certified, license 1022960-night trial
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What you brought home

The last duvet you buy for either season.

Most duvets only hold heat, so you end up owning a light one and a heavy one and still wake up too warm in spring and too cold in fall. Wool moves your body's moisture instead of only trapping heat, and that is what lets a single duvet feel right in every season.

Circadian organic wool duvet on a bed in natural light

Warm in winter, cool in summer, from one duvet.

What makes you too hot or too cold under a duvet is moisture more than temperature. Trap sweat against your skin and you overheat. Let your warmth escape too fast and you get cold. Wool handles both, pulling moisture away when you run warm and holding heat in when the room cools.

So the microclimate under the duvet stays even, and one duvet carries you through July and January alike. It absorbs up to 30% of its weight in moisture before the surface ever feels damp. If you have kicked a duvet off at 2am, wool is the fill that stops it.

0%of its weight in moisture the wool holds while staying dry to the touch.
Easier on your allergies

Most bedding is where dust mites live. Wool isn't.

Your duvet is the biggest piece of bedding you own, and dust mites make their home in bedding. Wool is one of the only fills they cannot live in, and it is the fiber itself that keeps them out, not a spray that wears off. Fewer allergens over you all night means fewer stuffy, sneezy mornings.

01

Lanolin turns them away

Wool's natural wax is hostile to dust mites and the bacteria they feed on, so they never establish.

02

Too dry to live in

Wool keeps its microclimate below the humidity mites need, so the duvet stays a place they cannot survive.

03

Nothing sprayed on

The resistance is built into the fiber, so it never washes out or wears off the way a treated cover does.

Twisted-cord hand tuft on the Circadian wool duvet
Inside the duvet

Real wool, tied in by hand so it never bunches up.

Inside is long-staple GOTS-certified organic wool, held in an organic cotton sateen shell. Long fibers keep their loft for years instead of matting down, and they carry the same temperature and allergy work over the whole bed that the wool pillow does under your head.

It is hand-tufted, not sewn into channels. Twisted-cord ties are tied by hand every 20 centimeters, so the wool stays exactly where it was placed and never drifts into the corners or leaves a cold spot.

Tufts
Hand-tied, 20 cm
Moisture it wicks
Up to 30%
Certified organic
Fill to thread
Setting it up

Slip it in a cover, and forget it.

Making the bed with the Circadian wool duvet

A wool duvet asks almost nothing of you. There is no fill to adjust and nothing to swap out by season. Set it up once, the way you would any duvet insert, and it just works for years.

01

Use a duvet cover

The duvet is the insert. Slip it into a removable cover, an organic cotton percale or sateen, and button or tie it in at the corners.

02

Let the tufts hold it

The hand-tied tufts keep the wool in place, so you never have to shake it back into shape or fight cold spots.

03

Keep it all year

Because wool regulates instead of only insulating, this is the duvet for every season. There is nothing to store in a closet half the year.

Clean the whole way through

You breathe against it all night. There is nothing in it but wool and cotton.

A duvet covers most of you, all night, every night. What it is made of is the air you breathe while you sleep, so we made it clean from the fill all the way to the thread.

GOTS Certified10229Oregon Tilth · GOTS v7.0Verify in the registry

Most duvets hide a lot. Down that carries dander, or polyester fill that is fine microplastic, wrapped in shells finished with chemical softeners and stain treatments. The whole of this one, the wool fill, the cotton shell, the thread, and the dye process, is certified organic under the Global Organic Textile Standard, license GOTS-10229, audited by Oregon Tilth and searchable by anyone.

The wool is long-staple, cleaned with biodegradable detergent, left undyed in its natural cream-to-tan color, with the lanolin that keeps it hypoallergenic still on every fiber. Clean the whole way through, so the air under the duvet all night is just fiber.

What you're not sleeping under

The list most duvet makers hope you never read.

None of it has ever been in a Circadian duvet.

Keep it for years

Wash the cover. Let the wool be.

Wool is close to self-cleaning, the lanolin that keeps mites away keeps odor down too. The duvet inside barely needs you.

Everyday

The cover washes, the wool doesn't

Keep the duvet inside a removable cover and wash the cover, not the wool. Spot-clean the duvet itself if something reaches it.

Never machine wash the wool fill. Water felts and mats it for good.

Every few months

Air it in the sun

Drape it in indirect sunlight for a few hours and give it a shake. Sun and fresh air refresh the wool and revive its loft with no washing.

Dry-clean only in the rare case it is heavily soiled.

Over the years

It holds its loft

The hand-tufts and long-staple wool keep the duvet full and even season after season, so it stays with you for ten to fifteen years.

Questions any time? Email jacob@circadianrest.com.

The rest of the bed

Made by the same hands, in the same New Jersey workshop, to the same standard.

One more thing

That's everything. Sleep well.

Anything at all, reply to any email from us or write to jacob@circadianrest.com. A real person in the workshop answers.

© Circadian · Handmade in New Jersey · 60-night trial, free returns both wayscircadianrest.com