Muslin Blanket, 6 Layer 100% Cotton Gauze Lightweight All Season Throw

Six layers of open cotton gauze, puckered all over into a soft pebbled surface you can see from across the room. Even the King weighs three and a bit pounds.

It is the layer between a sheet and a duvet, and most houses do not own one. Something for the nights that are not cold, only not warm.

The surface is puckered, not flat

The six layers are bonded at intervals, which draws the cloth up into small rounded bumps across the whole face. It is matte, with no sheen on it anywhere, so on a made bed it reads as texture rather than as a colored rectangle.

The hem is a plain turn on all four sides. No binding, no fringe, nothing added at the edge.

Muslin is a weave, not a marketing word

It is an open plain weave, which means the threads sit apart from one another rather than packed tight, and you can see daylight through a single layer of it. Six of those layers is what you are under.

Seven colors, and none of them are loud

White, Beige and Gray disappear into a made bed and are what most people end up with. Green and Sky sit a shade off neutral and only read as color when you are next to them.

Denim is the deepest of the seven, and it is the one that holds its own in a room full of white and oak. Pink is chalky rather than bright.

Four sizes, and the weights are the quickest way to picture them

Throw is one person in a chair or folded at the end of a bed. Large Throw covers a single properly. Queen goes across a double at full width with an overhang down each side, and King reaches the floor on a big bed.

All four weigh between a pound and a half and three and a third, which is listed below. That is the number to look at if you are deciding between two of them.