Vanya Wool Cashmere Throw Blanket - Fine Woven Blend, 52 x 71 Inches, Lightweight and Insulating for Couch or Bed

The VoriHaus Wool Cashmere Throw Blanket is woven from a blend of fine wool and cashmere. The supplier does not publish the ratio, so take it as a blend rather than as a cashmere throw: the wool carries the structure and most of the warmth, the cashmere the softness against skin. Wool insulates by holding air inside the fiber itself, which is why a blanket this light is warmer than its weight would suggest.

There is one size, 52 by 71 inches. That is a generous throw: long enough to cover an adult on a couch, wide enough to lie across the end of a double bed, and the right size to keep over the back of a chair where it stays in reach. The colorways are a smoky linen and a sandstone, both quiet enough to sit against a patterned cushion or a plain quilt without arguing with either.

It is machine washable, which is worth knowing for a wool blend, though wool of any kind lasts longer for being washed less often. VoriHaus recommends airing it rather than washing it whenever airing will do, drying it flat rather than over a radiator, and folding it rather than hanging it, so the weave is not pulled long along one edge. Kept out of direct sun it holds its color.