Blanket Special Editions & Collaborations
Over our 10 years of The British Blanket Company, we have had the opportunity to work with some truly brilliant artists, brands, and mills across the British Isles. Here's a look into the archive to meet our favourite collaborators from recent years.
Clarissa Hulse 2025
Design Notes
Date: 2025
Fibre: Recycled Cotton
Woven: Lancashire, England
When we decided to collaborate on a new collection of woven cotton blankets, Clarissa Hulse was the natural choice. From the moment we stepped into her North London studio, we were captivated by her love of colour, nature and pattern – a creative world that felt beautifully aligned with our own.
Clarissa has been designing textiles for over 20 years, and her distinctive style is instantly recognisable: bold botanicals, luminous ombrés and intricate plant silhouettes inspired by her travels and the British countryside. Her passion for the natural world flows through everything she creates, bringing a sense of joy and wonder into the home.
Grace Gillespie 2024
Design Notes
Date: 2024
Fibre: Recycled Cotton
Woven: Lancashire, England
The first of our artist collaborations began close to home, with Bristol printmaker Grace Gillespie. Known for her intricate reduction linocuts, Grace builds up layers of colour to capture the houseplants and garden flowers around her.
Two of her prints, Prayer Plant and Flowers were dramatically increased in scale and woven as Cloud Cotton blankets. Made on traditional jacquard looms in Lancashire, Grace’s flowing lines became bold, almost abstract shapes, woven into four reversible recycled cotton blanket. Together, we created a completely new way to experience her work.
Turtle Doves 2023
Design Notes
Date: 2023
Fibre: Recycled Cashmere & Merino Wool
Woven: Yorkshire, England
Our guest collection with Turtle Doves gave discarded cashmere jumpers a new life. We worked with Yorkshire textile recyclers iinouiio to blend the cashmere offcuts with new merino wool and re-spin them into beautifully soft yarn.
The resulting blankets combined cashmere’s lightness with the warmth of wool, woven in a classic herringbone. The collection celebrated the ingenuity of Britain’s long wool-recycling tradition, turning material that might otherwise be wasted into cashmere blend throws made to be treasured.
Garden Flowers 2023
Design Notes
Date: 2023
Fibre: Merino Lambswool
Woven: Banffshire, Scotland
The Garden Flowers special edition took its colours from somewhere very personal: our Granny’s cottage garden in Devon, where we spent summer days surrounded by hollyhocks, delphiniums, lavender and marigolds.
It was also our first collection woven in Scotland, working with a historic Highland mill established in 1783. We took the familiar geometry of traditional Scottish checks and reworked it in six joyful floral colourways, woven in soft merino lambswool. The result was a collection that brought together textile heritage, childhood memories and our enduring love of colour.
100% British Wool 2023
Design Notes
Date: 2023
Fibre: Suffolk and Romney breed wool
Woven: Banffshire, Scotland
This collection began with a desire to showcase British wool, an extraordinary natural fibre that had become surprisingly undervalued.
We blended fleeces from Suffolk and Romney sheep, leaving the wool completely undyed so its natural creams, greys and browns became the palette.
Every stage took place in Britain: fleece sourced from British farms, yarn spun in Yorkshire, cloth woven in Scotland and finishing in Wales. Even better, every blanket carried its own British Wool certification, making its provenance traceable back to UK farms.
Shipping Forecast 2022
Design Notes:
Date: 2022
Fibre: Merino Lambswool
Woven: Lancashire, England
Inspired by childhood holidays on the wild Pembrokeshire coast, Shipping Forecast celebrated the landscapes, flora and fauna surrounding the British Isles. Six merino lambswool blankets explored coastal colour beyond predictable seaside blues.
Our Ombre designs pushed traditional looms to their limit, blending seven melange yarns into subtly shifting colour, while the graphic Ripple weave magnified details from mackerel scales, painted topshells and rock samphire. Woven at a historic Lancashire mill, the collection brought together maritime nostalgia and ambitious weaving.
British Birds 2020
Design Notes
Date: 2020
Fibre: Merino Lambswool
Woven: Donegal, Ireland
Our Special Edition collection themed around British Birds was devised during the first Covid lockdown, when quieter Bristol streets suddenly made birdsong impossible to miss. Inspired by the birds Bethan enjoyed on her daily walks, we created eight colour palettes and invited our customers to choose their favourites.
Blue Tit, Woodpigeon, Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher and Robin became five merino lambswool blankets, woven in Donegal in Ireland. Each translated the bird’s plumage into rich melange yarns, with blocks of colour and intricate edge patterns inspired by hand-stitching.
