Laurel Nature-Inspired Soft Blanket
51"×71"
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$99.99
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$170.00
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51"×71" or 71"×91"?
One design, one finish — the only thing you are choosing is how much of it there is. And that comes down to whether this blanket belongs to a chair or to a bed.
| Choose | If this sounds like you |
|---|---|
| 51"×71" | It has one job: covering you on the sofa in the evening. It stays folded on the arm the rest of the time and never leaves the living room. |
| 71"×91" | You want it to work on the bed as an extra layer, or two people share it, or you are the sort of person who tucks their feet in and still wants their shoulders covered. |
The larger size covers a double bed properly rather than sitting on it like a runner. Worth knowing if that was the plan.
Will it still be soft after a few months?
Soft blankets almost always fail the same way — they pill. Little bobbles form where the surface rubs against itself and against everything else, and once they arrive they do not leave. Heat is the main culprit, friction is the second, and both are in your control.
| Works on | Avoid |
|---|---|
| A cool wash on its own or with other soft items. Air drying flat or over a wide airer. Sofas, beds, armchairs, car back seats, the floor in front of a heater. | Hot washes, hot tumble drying, and sharing a load with towels, denim or anything with a zip. Every one of those is a pilling machine. |
Cool wash, gentle cycle, air dry. The step people skip: wash it by itself the first time. New soft-surface blankets shed a little in their first wash, and if it is in with your dark clothes you will spend an evening with a lint roller instead.
The blanket that ends the nightly argument about the heating.
There is a specific hour in an evening, usually around nine, when the room stops being warm enough. Somebody wants the heating on. Somebody else points out that everyone is about to go to bed anyway. This is the standard resolution: a blanket good enough that reaching for it is the obvious move, kept somewhere within arm's reach of where you sit. The laurel pattern means it can stay out in view rather than being stuffed behind a cushion when people come over.
Botanical pattern, done quietly
Laurel is a good choice for a blanket for a reason that has nothing to do with fashion: it is a leaf shape with a simple outline that repeats without creating an obvious grid. Look at a lot of botanical prints on a large surface and you can see the tile — the same flower in the same place every eighteen inches, marching in rows. A leafing pattern like this breaks that up, so the eye reads foliage rather than repetition. It also survives being crumpled. A blanket spends most of its life in a heap rather than laid flat, and this design still looks like something when it is bunched on a sofa arm, which is the state you will actually see it in ninety percent of the time.
Where each size ends up
- 51"×71" — the sofa throw. Long enough to cover an adult from chin to ankle, narrow enough to fold in thirds over the arm of a two-seater without swamping it. This is the one that lives downstairs.
- 71"×91" — the bed layer. Spreads across a double with enough overhang on both sides to look deliberate, or covers two people on a wide sofa with nobody negotiating for territory.
What You're Getting
- One Laurel Nature-Inspired Soft Blanket in your chosen size
- Two sizes — 51"×71" as a sofa throw, 71"×91" for a bed or for two people
- A laurel leaf design that reads as foliage rather than as an obvious repeating tile
- A soft surface made to be pulled over you directly, not layered over sheets first
- Holds its look crumpled, which is how a blanket spends most of its life
- Machine washable — cool, gentle cycle
- Wash it alone the first time, then only with other soft items
- Air dry, no hot tumble drying — heat and friction are what cause pilling
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30 days to live with it. Send it back if it’s not the one — fewer than 1% of customers ever do.
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- USA — 5–10 business days after dispatch
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If a piece doesn’t feel right in your home, get in touch within 30 days of delivery. We’ll arrange a refund or exchange — whichever you prefer.
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Fewer than 1% of customers ever need to use this, but the option’s always there — because home should feel like home.
