Vinci Contemporary Striped Bed Blanket
Which size, and where is it going?
The stripe runs the same scale in every size, so a small one is not a scaled-down version of the large — it just shows fewer bands. Decide where it lives first and the size follows.
| Choose | If this sounds like you |
|---|---|
| 100 × 150 cm | One armchair, one person, one book. Also the size that lives in the car boot for cold sidelines. |
| 150 × 150 cm | A square, which is the one people overlook. It sits square on a corner sofa or folds into a neat block on a bench without a long tail hanging off one end. |
| 180 × 200 cm | A full or queen bed, or a three-seat sofa where two adults both want covering. |
| 200 × 230 cm | A king bed dressed properly, with the stripe running the full width and the sides dropping past the mattress. |
On a bed, lay it so the stripes run across rather than down. It makes a narrow room look wider and costs nothing to try.
Will the stripes go wavy after washing?
Stripes are unforgiving — any distortion in the fabric shows up immediately as a bend in a line that used to be straight. Nearly all of that comes from how the blanket is dried, not how it is washed.
| Fine | Avoid |
|---|---|
| Cold gentle wash with a reduced spin | Hot washing, which shrinks bands at different rates and buckles the lines |
| Drying flat, squared up, with the corners pulled true | Hanging it wet from two pegs, which stretches the middle out of line |
| A cool iron along the stripe direction if needed | Ironing across the stripes, which drags them off straight |
The step people skip: squaring the corners while it is still damp. Thirty seconds of pulling it true on a flat surface is the whole reason some striped blankets still look sharp after two years and others look like they melted.
A bed that looks made even on the mornings you did not really make it.
A plain throw folded across a bed either looks deliberate or looks abandoned, and there is no way to tell which until you step back. A stripe removes the ambiguity. The lines give the eye something to read as straight, which means even a rough fold looks like a decision. That is a small thing that pays off every single morning, and it is the reason a striped blanket outlives most plain ones in a household where nobody has time to fuss over bedding.

Why the stripe scale is what makes or breaks this
Thin pinstripes on a blanket read as fabric swatch and vanish from more than a few feet away. Very wide bands read as two-tone and look like a mistake at the seam. The Vinci sits in the middle band width, which is the range where the pattern still resolves from across a room but does not turn the blanket into a flag. That matters more on soft furnishings than on anything else, because a blanket is the one textile in a room that is regularly seen crumpled, folded, half-draped and pulled sideways — and a mid-scale stripe is the only stripe that survives all four of those states without looking wrong in at least one of them.
- Dark Grey — charcoal bands against a lighter grey. The one that goes on a bed in a room with white walls and disappears politely, and the one that copes best with a household that has pets.
- Mint Green — soft cool green. Reads fresh rather than pastel, and is the best of the three next to plants or pale wood.
- Soft Peach — warm muted pink-orange. Lifts a room with cold north light, and is the one that most changes the mood of a plain white bed.
- Across the sofa arm — with the stripe running vertically down the arm, which is the arrangement that makes a plain sofa look styled without any other effort.

What You're Getting
- One Vinci Contemporary Striped Bed Blanket in your chosen colour and size
- Three colours — Dark Grey, Mint Green and Soft Peach
- Four sizes — 100 × 150 cm, 150 × 150 cm, 180 × 200 cm and 200 × 230 cm, including a true square
- Mid-scale stripe that stays legible from across a room and does not disappear when the blanket is folded
- Consistent stripe scale across all sizes, so two different sizes in one room still match
- Cold gentle machine wash with the spin turned down
- Dry flat and square rather than hung from two pegs
- Pull the corners true while damp, which is what keeps the lines straight long-term
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- Domestic — 4–7 business days
- UK & Europe — 7–14 business days
- Everywhere else — 10–18 business days
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