by Bob Ozment | Mar 16, 2018 | blankets
If you’re in the market for a Vellux blanket, your search ends here. The quality analysis you’re about to see is fruit of over 6, 000 work hours. It took us about 7 months to put this guide together – we interviewed material technology engineers and analyzed over...
by Bob Ozment | Mar 14, 2018 | blankets, washing and cleaning, wool
How to wash / clean a wool blanket? Can you wash it without shrinking it? Is there a difference between washing merino wool, alpaca and other types? All of the above are questions that kept popping up in our inbox ever since we published our main guide on wool...
by Bob Ozment | Mar 14, 2018 | blankets, wool
What’s the best wool blanket? The choices you’ll see in this guide are a result of over 4,000 work hours. We started the work about 18 months ago by consulting 3 material technology engineers and combined their expertise on wool quality with statistical analysis...
by Bob Ozment | Jan 21, 2018 | bedding, blankets
The guide on the best beach blankets was long in the works (probably longer than we expected) because our rating methods we used for other blankets did not exactly “translate” to this category. Besides tweaking our rating algorithm we got outside help from...
by Bob Ozment | Jan 19, 2018 | bedding, blankets
Top 5 out of 70 Our list and ratings of the best weighted blanket for adults are fruit of over 5,000 work hours, and 11 months of testing and statistical analysis of 70 products. Since the choice of a weighted blanket highly depends on the issue you’re trying to...
by Richard Huff | Jan 8, 2018 | blankets, knitted blankets, knitting
This guide has been in the works for longer than we expected. When we first received requests to look into the market of knit blankets and separate the wheat from the chaff, we thought that our in-house expertise was going to do the trick. Boy, were we wrong…the...