Indoor Outdoor Throw Blanket – Performance Fabric, 48x72, Fossil

Fossil is a gray with warmth in it, closer to weathered stone than to slate, and this throw carries it plain across 48 by 72 inches with no pattern at all. Undecorated cloth in a neutral is a deliberately quiet choice. It settles into a room instead of competing for attention, and it works with furniture already in place rather than asking for anything to be moved.

Performance fabric names a construction, not a fiber. What it is built to survive is the outdoor cycle: wet, then dry, then hot sun, over and over. Cloth that holds water in the weave grows mildew in the seams; cloth that sheds it dries in an afternoon. A pale gray gains from this more than most shades, since it is the tone that shows a water ring most clearly when a fabric absorbs unevenly.

Because it is rated for outside as well as in, it can stay folded on a patio chair rather than being carried indoors each evening. In a living room it reads as one more layer on a sofa or a chair back.

• Material: Performance fabric
• Size: 48" x 72"
• Color: Fossil
• Suitable for: Indoor and outdoor use