Tiger Bedding

Tiger bedding turns the largest flat surface in a bedroom into one big tiger picture. The designs in this collection are printed across the whole top of the cover, the photos show them with pillowcases that repeat the animal, and the subjects range from photographic portraits of white tigers to painted jungle scenes and a purple pattern scattered with small tigers. Every set is offered in the four standard US bed sizes, Twin, Full, Queen and King.

One face across the whole bed

Several designs are built around a single head. The White Tiger Bed Set with Blue Eyes shows a white tiger lying down and gazing straight out of the cover, its turquoise eyes and pink nose the only touches of color in an image of black, gray and white, while each pillowcase repeats the face in close-up. The Black and White Tiger Bedding Set goes darker still: a tiger's head in black and white, with pale blue eyes, rises out of an all-black background, so the face seems to hover over the mattress.

Portraits at this scale rely on contrast. In the product photos, whiskers, fur and the rims of the eyes stay sharp across the full width of the cover, and the dark backgrounds frame each face much as a mat frames a print on the wall.

Tiger bedding with a whole scene

Other sets tell a story with more than one animal. On the Bengal Tiger Bedding, two orange tigers move across a pale cream ground framed by green palm and bamboo leaves: one sits with its tongue out, the other walks with its head low, and the pillowcases carry the same pair. The scene has the soft, open feel of a painted screen, with plenty of light space around the animals.

The Traditional Tiger Comforter Set King leans toward folk art. An elephant dressed in a pink and blue saddle cloth takes the center of a deep purple ground, surrounded by tropical flowers, peacock feathers and palm fronds, while tigers look on from the lower corners and a white tiger walks along one side. It is one of the busiest and most colorful designs in the collection, closer to a tapestry than to a photograph.

A pattern of small tigers

Not every set is a portrait. The Purple Tiger Comforter Set Twin scatters small orange tigers across a solid purple ground: some walking, one leaping, and a tiger face looking out from between them. It reads as a repeating pattern rather than a single picture, the kind of print that looks just as complete with a pillow or a folded blanket resting on part of it. Despite the size in its name, it comes in all four sizes, like every other set here.

Twin, Full, Queen or King

Every design is sold in the four US sizes, Twin, Full, Queen and King, and each size option lists its exact width and length in inches on the product page. A few titles mention one size, such as Queen or King, but the options on those sets include all four, so a design is never limited to the bed size in its name.

Comforter set, duvet cover or bed set?

The titles in this collection use several names: comforter set, comforter cover set, duvet cover, bed set and bedding set. Whatever the name, the designs described on this page are all pictured in the same way, as a printed top cover on a made bed with two matching pillowcases. In general terms, a comforter is a filled, quilted blanket washed as one piece, while a duvet cover is a removable case that slips over an insert and comes off for washing. A tiger comforter set and a duvet cover with pillowcases look much the same once the bed is made, which is why the two terms so often overlap.

Blankets, curtains and the rest of the room

A bed often carries a second layer on top. Our tiger blanket collection has throws printed with white tigers, cartoon cubs or the striped coat on its own, in sizes from lap blankets to bed-size pieces that can lie across the foot of a cover. For the difference between a throw and the bedding underneath it, our article on what is a throw blanket describes what a throw is for and where it usually ends up.

The same photographic style continues into the bathroom, where a tiger shower curtain can show two tigers swimming below a waterfall or a single white tiger's face from edge to edge. Bedding, blankets and curtains are all part of our wider tiger decor collection, which also gathers rugs, lamps, statues, tapestries and canvas prints.

The tiger as a night watchman

Sleeping beside a tiger has a long history. In China, ceramic pillows shaped like tigers, or painted with them, were made for centuries, and tradition held that the animal would keep nightmares and evil spirits away from the sleeper. The tiger is also the third sign of the Chinese zodiac, and feng shui links the White Tiger with the west and with protection. Those beliefs are part of why a tiger over the bed still appeals to many people, together with the pull of a striking image at the center of the room.

Tiger bedding answers in brief

Does every design come in all four bed sizes?

Yes. Each set is offered in US Twin, Full, Queen and King, whatever size its title mentions.

Are the pillowcases printed too?

In the product photos they are. The designs described above are each shown with two pillowcases on the bed that repeat the main tiger or a detail from the scene, such as the pair of tigers on the Bengal set.

Which designs feature a white tiger?

The White Tiger Bed Set with Blue Eyes makes one the whole subject, the Traditional Tiger Comforter Set King includes one among its jungle animals, and several more designs carry a white tiger in their titles.