On 25 September 2026 the first duvet of this year’s harvest left the sewing table. It is a single, 140 × 200 cm, filled with 800 g of eiderdown gathered at Lækur in June – the duvet we call Arctic, made for the person who wants the warmest thing we make.
Before a duvet like this can be sold in Iceland it has to pass through one more pair of hands. Under Act no. 52/2005 every finished eiderdown product is inspected and weighed by a sworn, state-licensed down assessor, and only then does it receive its official quality certificate. Ours was approved and given certificate no. 001780 by assessor no. 115. The certificate travels with the duvet, tied to its corner, and it is the customer’s proof that what is inside is exactly what we say it is: 800 g of Icelandic eiderdown, nothing else.
It is a small piece of paper, and it is the whole point. Anyone can write “100 % eiderdown” on a label; the certificate is what makes it true. Every duvet we make will leave Lækur with one.
This first duvet is already spoken for. We will take it west to Lækur before it ships, photograph it properly in the light it was made for, and tell you where it went – with the permission of the person who is going to sleep under it.
Follow us on Instagram – @zoffi_eiderdown – for the small moments from Lækur between diary entries: the first eiders in spring, the fjord in every weather, and the work in between.