I came across this rather lovely duvet cover yesterday. Basically, it contains life-size images of a naked man and woman, allowing you to stick your head over the top and laugh the night away. It gave me an idea. One could use the same technique to produce a duvet cover containing a life-size image of the Turin Shroud, allowing people to spend the night under Jesus. I am not sure who owns the image, but I don’t think there would be any copyright problems. 
So, time for some market research. Assuming that both the naked duvet and Turin Shroud duvet were the same price, which would you buy and why?
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May 27, 2009 at 11:43 pm |
I’d go with the naked couple. Sleeping under a fake Jesus burial cloth image is creepy.
May 28, 2009 at 12:02 am |
ummm, do I have to choose one? neither thanks!!
(ok, if I have to choose, the couple)
May 28, 2009 at 12:06 am |
It’s kind of an all-or-nothing scenario.
Having said that, if I was forced by a lion to choose, I’d go with the couple. Mostly because it makes me laugh more than the other one.
May 28, 2009 at 12:08 am |
Ick.
May 28, 2009 at 12:17 am |
I would buy the couple, it’s more funny and I think not so blasphemous…
in my opinion relics aren’t things for a bed
May 28, 2009 at 1:46 am |
Oh i’d love a shroud. I’m slightly weirded out that anyone would want the couple.
May 28, 2009 at 2:56 am |
I’d love to get the couple one…
Funny and you can also “switch” gender by getting on the other side of the duvet…
May 28, 2009 at 3:52 am |
Couldn’t we just go for something with flowers? Both options strike me as the kind of novelty items that get bought and given but never actually used.
May 28, 2009 at 4:06 am |
I don’t want either, but here’s how you can reach the market for the latter:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8068680.stm
May 28, 2009 at 4:11 am |
I’d go for the shroud of Turin. I’d rather the naked couple under the covers. And I think the shroud of Turin one is kinda silly and good for my ego. (Athough does that basically says I don’t really exist?)
May 28, 2009 at 4:18 am |
I’d go with the Sistine Chapel ceiling myself. I have to say that fine-art and religious iconography would make for cool bed sets.
Do they have any with Mohamed on them?
May 28, 2009 at 5:01 am |
Just don’t put it on a kid’s bed.
It would rapidly become the Shroud of Urine.
May 28, 2009 at 6:19 am |
Oh would have to be the shroud for me….its quirky.
May 28, 2009 at 6:43 am |
I’m pretty certain the shroud one would give me nightmares…
May 28, 2009 at 7:57 am |
I see a problem, what if the man sleeps on the right side of the bed, and the women on the left.. ?!
May 28, 2009 at 8:41 am
Why would that be a problem?
May 28, 2009 at 8:57 am |
The shroud. I don’t have any ethical problems with it and I like the idea of your mates coming over looking at your bed and saying WTF is that?
To which you duly explain that it is the Turin shroud. It’s a talking point and it is a nice little segue into explaining how gullible and more importantly, fallible the church is. Which can only ever be a good thing.
May 28, 2009 at 9:21 am |
Definitely the shroud
May 28, 2009 at 11:34 am |
Oh, dear god, the shroud! Are you kidding?? Christmas and birthday pressies for everyone! ;-D
May 28, 2009 at 12:15 pm |
I love the idea of the shroud cover, but I’m one of those weird people who likes to color-coordinate my furnishings, and that icky brown color just doesn’t work.
But I love the idea and I’d totally vote for it! I wouldn’t buy the naked couple one unless they had a version where they’re not covering up the genitalia. I mean, c’mon, we can all tell they’re naked, why bother to pretend or hide anything at that point? Nudity is OK as long as 4 square inches of flesh on a specific portion of the body is covered up? Sorry, but people are not suddenly struck insane if they see an obviously naked person’s nipples or genitalia.
May 28, 2009 at 1:13 pm |
I do like the couple one. The bodies are rather fit! Sorry, but I don’t think the Turin Shroud would go with my decor (lack of an altar, candles and dark walls etc).
May 28, 2009 at 1:19 pm |
Can’t say I would spend good money on either but would definitely choose shroud if had to. World’s best ever fake.
May 28, 2009 at 3:20 pm |
I’d give you 31 pieces of silver for the Shroud duvet: one more than Judas got for the real thing.
I’d pay more for one of Han Solo in Carbonite, probably with Leia in that bikini next to him…hubba hubba
May 28, 2009 at 3:45 pm |
Being a sad person with nothing better to do on Thursdays, I went and had a look at the website where the duvet cover was on sale. Really disappointed to find that it’s no longer available; I suppose everyone here has gobbled up their stock. So can I have the Horse Space Hoppers instead? And a real challenge to you Mr Wiseman: can you re-create the Horsey Hopper game using edible components?
http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/horse-space-hoppers-horsey-hoppers-inflatable-horse-racing-game.html
May 28, 2009 at 5:51 pm |
The naked one might make a good gift. I love the Turin shroud as a piece of art, but it’s not my style as far as interior design is concerned (then again, neither is the naked couple).
May 28, 2009 at 6:36 pm |
The couples one definitely, wouldn’t want to sleep with some scrawny dead bloke on top of me.
May 28, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
Id like the shroud but it would have to be on the right side of the duvet cover….unless you put two of them christ images, that would make it ever so weird but more practical
May 28, 2009 at 9:24 pm |
isn’t the shroud really creepy? I mean that’s something people DIE in. Not SLEEP in. Am I being superstitious?
May 29, 2009 at 4:10 am |
At least the naked couple was at some point real. I’d buy it if it were in 3D and capable of carrying on a short conversation.
May 29, 2009 at 8:12 am |
Couple for me. Shroud is as many seem to agree, kinda creepy.
Also, with the couple duvet you’d not need to iron it as much as you got older so it had that authentic wrinkly body look.
May 30, 2009 at 5:51 am |
Shroud of Turin definitely. I want it already. It is creepy but then shroud is a fake to begin with, plus you’re not actually looking down at your sheets when you lay there. The couple one looks tacky.
May 31, 2009 at 5:13 am |
I think neither, but if they put a nude Richard Wiseman duvet cover on the market, then who knows…
May 31, 2009 at 6:44 am
Don’t get my hopes up…
May 31, 2009 at 12:55 pm |
Assuming the choices are the two shown, Jesus is the prettier pattern. They are both creepy for sleep, if funny for photos.
May 31, 2009 at 4:27 pm |
Wouldn’t personally choose either, but if I had to then would go with the couple as that would be amusing (only for all of a few minutes though). The shroud may be nicer aesthetically speaking as it is more patterned, and in dim light would be ambiguous as to what it was, but sleeping under it would be too… weird, creepy, and tasteless (possibly slightly blasphemous). But I wouldn’t want to sleep under either duvet.
June 1, 2009 at 7:49 pm |
The naked couple duvet IS funny, but remember, unless you have a drier, you’ll have to hang it on the washing line to dry, so sharing the joke/embarrasment with all the neighbours lol.
June 3, 2009 at 3:43 pm |
Just a note – your image of the shroud is a negative, it needs to be inverted to look like the actual shroud. Not to mention, you’d need to do something to up the contrast – in person, the shroud isn’t very distinct (which is why people like to show this inverted version)
June 7, 2009 at 4:12 am |
I’d go for the shroud, just because the couple is only good for one or two laughs, and then it’s just tacky. But my wife, the product of a Catholic school, would never let me actually put it on the bed.
July 14, 2009 at 1:52 am |
That’s really hilarious – - you Jewish fuck!
September 5, 2009 at 1:19 am |
stupid choice…ignorant people
October 6, 2009 at 9:10 am |
bang on the couple
October 7, 2009 at 5:33 am |
you stole the idea from Paul Merton from an episode of Have I Got News For You. Series 7 episode 5t to be exact.
October 9, 2009 at 2:46 pm |
Neither. I choose not to even acknowledge the fallacy of the shroud of Turin. Completely Unreal. According to an article taken from youdebate.com:
Forensic tests of the “blood” — which has remained suspiciously bright red — were consistently negative, and in 1980 renowned microanalyst Walter C. McCrone determined that the image was composed of red ocher and vermilion tempera paint.
so yeah. done.
January 7, 2010 at 4:04 am |
Definitely the shroud, that is so cool! It seems sacrilegious but actually scientist have found no evidence that was J’s burial cloth.
Linda from
Childrens Duvet Covers
January 30, 2010 at 10:36 pm |
lol jesus
February 3, 2010 at 7:51 pm |
Actually, I was intending to make Turin Shroud Bed Sets about 25 years ago (and I won’t offend anyone’s sensetivities with my “Resurrection Cuckoo Clock plan, lol), but alas there was no market for it at that time.
Bizarrely, I was rethinking the idea and was doing some general research when I stumbled on this blog. So thanks for pretty much making my mind up to go ahead.
How mine differs from your question, however, is that mine is done as a set:-
Body on the quilt (reversable, so you can choose positive or negative image) and Head on the pillow case (also reversable).
I still use the original set I made all that time ago, and I for one think it makes a great image
March 9, 2010 at 6:57 pm |
hi people!
October 11, 2010 at 10:29 pm |
haha That duvet cover is so funny! What a creative idea.