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Woven in Scotland from Donegal Merino, the Bracken blanket is the product of a fibre that has been shaped by landscape and climate over generations. Merino wool's fine micron count gives it exceptional softness against the skin, while its natural crimp traps air and regulates temperature — It is a fibre that breathes.
The weave structure is not merely decorative. Each interlacement is a decision about how the cloth will drape, recover, and wear over time; how it will soften with use rather than pill or fatigue. This is what Glenn Adamson, in Fewer Better Things*, calls 'material intelligence' — a knowledge that lives not just in the hands at the loom, but in an understanding of how wool takes up dye, holds its structure under tension, and yields just enough to fall correctly across the body.
Natural variation in colour and handle reflects the character of the fibre and the honesty of the making. This is a blanket that will change slightly with washing, with use, with time — and be better for it.
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