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Show Buy Sheets to Fit Mattress To protect the bed and to give maximum sleeping comfort sheets should be long enough and wide enough to tuck underneath the mattress mat-tress at least five or six inches on all sides. The average mattress is approximately 74 or 75 inches long. Since the size marked on the finished fin-ished sheet muslin as well as percaleindicates per-caleindicates the torn or un-hemmed un-hemmed size, it is a good plan to allow five Inches for shrinkage and another five inches for hemming. |