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WHAT DOES FILL POWER ACTUALLY MEAN?

Roughly speaking fill power is a measure of how much volume is taken up by a given quantity of down. The higher the fill power the loftier the material, loft meaning the amount of air held within the material, which translates into insulation (still air is a great insulator remember).

So if we were to compare the fill power of say one pound of potato peelings with one pound of cotton wool balls, the cotton wool would win as it would take up a much larger volume, (something worth remembering if you're forced to make your own sleeping bag out of household items).

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