de Le Cuona | Herringbone Cashmere Blanket – Fawn

This is a cashmere blanket woven in a herringbone structure, so the surface has a subtle broken-diagonal texture rather than a flat weave, catching light in narrow bands as the angle shifts. It is finer and softer to the hand than a wool blanket of similar weight, with the herringbone giving it just enough structure to hold a fold crisply when draped rather than collapsing into a heap.

Woven in cashmere and finished in fawn, the blanket measures 150cm wide, made by de Le Cuona, whose cashmere pieces we specify where a room calls for something quieter and finer than wool. The herringbone is a woven structure rather than a printed pattern, so there is no repeat to match, and the texture reads consistently across the full width.

We would put this at the end of a bed in a main bedroom, over the back of a sofa in a sitting room, or folded on an ottoman where it is likely to be picked up and used rather than left as decoration. The fawn works particularly well against darker wools or ink-blue linens, and sits comfortably alongside the Nomad or Herder pieces where a client wants a run of throws in related but not matching tones.

Being a finished piece, there is no cutting or hemming to arrange, though the 150cm width is worth checking against the bed or sofa in question, especially where the blanket is meant to hang rather than simply lie folded. Cashmere of this kind should be dry cleaned rather than washed, stored folded and away from direct sun, and kept clear of rough upholstery that might catch and pull the weave over time.