If your weekend cover change still means wrestling corner ties inside a fabric tunnel, Singapore label Habo has an alternative on sale at thehabo.com. Its debut product, the Tureis Magnetic Duvet System, replaces those ties with magnets that snap the insert and cover together, so the duvet stays put overnight.
Habo announced the set on 20 October 2026. The Queen set costs S$299 and the King set costs S$329, and each price includes the duvet insert, the cover and GST. That is a lot of thought for a chore most of us put off. It is also a fix for anyone who has woken up to their duvet bunched into one sad corner of its cover.
Eight Ties Too Many
Habo founder Donovan Pok grew up sleeping under cartoon-printed duvets his mother picked out. He never thought about what it took to put one on until he started changing the covers himself. His duvet ties slipped loose overnight or ended up too tight to undo on wash day.
A queen-size bed made it worse. Habo says one cover change could then take 15 to 30 minutes, depending on who was doing it. When he looked for alternatives, he found large plastic clips that you could see, feel through the duvet and hear rubbing against the fabric. He also found an overseas magnetic duvet, but its magnet pockets showed on the outside, and it didn’t have enough magnets to hold a queen-size insert in place.
So he left his job at a global consumer technology company and registered Habo Pte. Ltd. in March 2026.
“Duvet ties can be frustrating. Too loose, and they come undone overnight. Too tight, and they’re a hassle to undo the next day. With Tureis, you line up the corners and the magnets do the rest.”
Where the Magnets Hide
The insert and the cover each carry six 25mm N42 magnets. There is one at every corner and one in the middle of the top and bottom edges. You line up each pair, let them snap together, and zip the cover shut.
Each magnet sits in a sealed protective shell, which is sewn into a fabric pocket. That pocket is stitched along the cover’s existing seams, so nothing shows on the outside. “The magnets should do their job without anyone seeing or feeling them,” Pok says.
Habo rates the holding strength at 4kg to 5kg. Pairing a magnet with iron came loose almost immediately, and pairing one with carbon steel lasted only a few nights. An 18mm magnet pair held but fell short of the target. The final 25mm pair stays attached even when a connected corner is flicked.
The middle-edge magnets are the smart part. Habo says spreading the hold across six points helps keep the insert from shifting, and that is the problem the whole product was built around. Four corners alone would leave a long Queen or King insert with room to sag in the middle.
Harder to Make Than It Looks
Stronger magnets made the duvet hold better, but they made it harder to manufacture. The factory first cut each magnet pocket with a laser, which left a brown tint along the stitched edge of light-coloured fabric. Those pieces are now cut by hand instead. It takes longer, but the edges stay clean.
Sewing caused the other headache. The magnets pulled towards the sewing machine’s metal plate and dragged the fabric with them, leaving crooked stitch lines. Habo’s fix was a set of custom moulds that hold the pocket and magnet steady while a machine stitches them. It’s the kind of detail nobody would guess from the finished duvet, which is the point.
A Zip and Plain Cotton
Buttons are gone too. The covers close with a YKK CONCEAL invisible zip, whose teeth sit hidden behind the fabric. Habo’s argument is that buttons need lining up hole by hole and are held on by thread that loosens over time, and anyone who has lost a duvet button to the wash will agree.
The covers are 100% cotton sateen at a 300 thread count (TC, the number of threads woven into a square inch), and the cover fabric is certified to OEKO-TEX Standard 100. Habo skipped trendier fabrics like Tencel. Making them work would push the price higher. “Cotton is a fabric people already know and trust,” Pok says.
Read This Before Wash Day
Both the cover and the insert are machine washable, magnets included. Habo says the protective shells keep water away from the magnets and prevent rust. It reports that the magnets didn’t break or rust over several rounds in a 10kg washing machine. The insert is the heavy part. Its 200gsm (grams per square metre) polyester microfibre fill absorbs water and gets heavy when wet.
Habo recommends washing at home in a machine of at least 10kg, on a cold wash with a low spin speed. If your HDB washer is smaller than that, Habo suggests a laundromat’s large washers as an option. The magnets are rated to 80°C, and Habo tested tumble drying on low heat. The magnets may cling to a metal dryer drum, which the brand calls expected and harmless.
There’s one safety note. The set contains small internal magnets, and Habo advises anyone with a pacemaker or another magnet-sensitive medical device to consult their doctor before use.
Is It Worth S$299?
S$299 is serious money for bedding. Still, the price includes the insert, and a cover change that skips the knots altogether is a meaningful upgrade for anyone who dreads Sunday chores. If you’re buying, we’d get the Queen set with one extra Queen cover. If you’re buying, we’d get the Queen set with one extra Queen cover for S$438 in total. That way, one cover can be in the wash while the other is on the bed, and the order clears the free delivery threshold with room to spare.
The covers come in Off-White, Quiet Grey and Dune Sand. Dune Sand is our pick, since a warm neutral hides the odd coffee drip better than Off-White does.
👉 Queen set (210 × 210cm): S$299, insert and cover
👉 King set (240 × 210cm): S$329, insert and cover
👉 Extra covers: Queen S$139, King S$149
🚚 Delivery: 2 to 3 working days within Singapore, free on orders over S$200
🛒 Where to buy: Online only, at thehabo.com
When we covered Singapore Design Week 2024, Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things came up, and Tureis is a good example of what that book is about: someone fixing a chore they were tired of doing badly. If tying duvet corners has ever eaten a chunk of your weekend, browse the colours and sizes at Habo’s online store and get that time back!
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Habo.
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