Toucan Bird Cotton Throw
Sofa throw or bed cover — which size am I actually buying?
Both sizes are the same cotton throw with the same toucan design; the larger one simply keeps going. The way to decide is to picture where it ends up when nobody is using it, because that's where it spends most of its life.
| Choose | If this sounds like you |
|---|---|
| 150 × 200 cm | It lives on the sofa or the armchair, one person wraps up in it in the evening, and it folds over the arm the rest of the time. |
| 200 × 230 cm | It's going on the bed as the top layer, and you want the pattern to be the first thing you see from the bedroom door. |
If it's for a spare room that doubles as somewhere people sit, the larger one covers both jobs.
Will the colours survive being washed?
A toucan design is mostly saturated colour against pale ground, and that's the hardest combination to keep looking right — the brights bleed and the ground picks it up. Cotton makes this manageable, provided you never wash it warm.
| Do this | Avoid |
|---|---|
| First wash cold and on its own, so any loose dye from the bright areas goes down the drain instead of into your sheets. | Warm or hot cycles. Cotton relaxes and shrinks a little at temperature, and the pattern pulls slightly out of shape with it. |
| Line dry in shade, or take it out of the dryer while it's still slightly damp. | Drying it flat in the sun. Strong light takes the intensity out of the coloured areas long before the white ground shows any change. |
| Shake it out and drape it while damp — cotton drops most of its creases on its own that way. | Bleach and optical brighteners. They attack the printed areas first, so the toucan goes before the background does. |
Cotton wrinkles — that's the trade for how it feels — and the folds relax out within a day of being on the bed. The step people skip: hanging it up straight out of the machine. Left in a damp heap for an hour, it sets creases that then need ironing; hung immediately, it needs nothing.
A bird loud enough to make the rest of the room look deliberate.
The problem with a room that's been decorated entirely in safe colours is that it never resolves — you keep adding cushions, and it keeps looking unfinished. What it's usually missing is one object with a subject on it. A toucan across a cotton throw does that job in a single move: strong shape, strong colour, and something for the eye to land on when you walk in. Everything else in the room suddenly reads as a considered background rather than as beige by default.

Cotton is why you'll actually use it rather than just look at it
Decorative throws usually get bought for the pattern and then quietly abandoned, because the fabric that holds a bright print best tends to be synthetic — slick, faintly plasticky, and unpleasantly warm the moment you're under it for more than ten minutes. Cotton behaves differently. It breathes, so it doesn't build up heat against you, and it can be pulled over a duvet on a cool night or used on its own in summer without becoming clammy.
It also improves with use, which almost nothing synthetic does. Cotton softens as the fibres relax with each wash, so the throw that arrives with a bit of crispness to it becomes noticeably more pliable over the first month and drapes closer around a shoulder. The pattern sits into the weave rather than on top of it, which is the difference between a design that looks printed on and one that looks like part of the cloth.
- 150 × 200 cm — the sofa size. Long enough for one person to stretch out under, and it folds down neatly over an armrest without swamping a two-seater.
- 200 × 230 cm — the bed size. Covers a double as a top layer with enough width to hang down the sides, so the toucan is fully visible rather than half of it disappearing over the edge.

What You're Getting
- Toucan Bird Cotton Throw in your chosen Size, ready to use as it arrives
- Cotton construction, so it breathes rather than trapping heat the way a synthetic throw does
- A large toucan design that works as the focal point of a room, not as a repeating background print
- Two sizes: 150 × 200 cm for a sofa or armchair, 200 × 230 cm as a bed top layer
- Softens with each wash instead of degrading
- Usable year round — over a duvet in winter, on its own in summer
- Cold machine wash, separately for the first cycle
- Line dry in shade and hang it immediately out of the machine to avoid set creases
Free tracked shipping to your door. Easy 30-day returns.
Shipping Info
Processing
Orders are packed and dispatched within 1–2 business days of payment.
Delivery times
- USA — 5–9 business days
- Domestic — 4–7 business days
- UK & Europe — 7–14 business days
- Everywhere else — 10–18 business days
Tracking
Every order ships with end-to-end tracking. You’ll get a tracking link by email the moment your parcel leaves the warehouse.
Money Back Guarantee
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.
No essays required. No restocking fees. Just a quick email to support@loftandstone.com and we’ll take it from there.
Fewer than 1% of customers ever need to use this, but the option’s always there — because home should feel like home.