Woven in Guimarães, Portugal
Harbor Throw
A heavy lambswool throw with a hand-knotted fringe, woven on a Portuguese jacquard loom.
$148
About it
Why the Harbor Throw is made the way it is.
Most throws sold as blankets are 400 grams of brushed acrylic and behave like it — warm for a minute, static by the end of the evening, pilled by March. The Harbor is 1,150 grams, which is roughly the weight at which a throw stops sliding off a sofa and starts staying where you put it.
The weave is a two-tone herringbone: a lambswool warp carrying the colour and a cotton weft doing the structural work, which is what stops a wool throw of this weight from going baggy along the fold lines within a season. The fringe is knotted by hand, four strands at a time, because a cut fringe on a wool throw unravels the first time it goes near a washing machine.
It is genuinely warm rather than decoratively warm. If you run cold and read in the evenings, this is the one. If you want something to fold over the end of a bed for the look of it, the Linen Set has a lighter coverlet that costs less and does that job better.
Specifications
The details worth checking before you buy.
| Dimensions | 55 × 71 in (140 × 180 cm), plus a 3 in fringe |
|---|---|
| Weight | 1,150 g / 2 lb 9 oz |
| Composition | 80% lambswool, 20% long-staple cotton |
| Weave | Two-tone herringbone, hand-knotted fringe |
| Colours | Harbour Blue · Oat · Moss · Charcoal |
| Origin | Woven in Guimarães, Portugal |
| Certification | OEKO-TEX Standard 100, Class I |
Care
How to not ruin it.
- Cold gentle machine wash, wool cycle, mesh bag. It genuinely survives this — we tested to 40 cycles.
- Dry flat and out of direct sun. Never tumble dry: the fringe is the part that felts.
- Air it rather than washing it. Wool self-cleans, and the fewer washes the longer the loft lasts.