Blanket (disambiguation)

A blanket is a large, usually rectangular piece of thick bedding material.

Blanket or blankets may also refer to:

Types of blanket

 * Afghan blanket, a coloured wool knitted or crocheted in geometric shapes


 * Blanket sleeper, a one-piece, footed sleeping garment
 * Electric blanket, an electrically heated bedding material
 * Fire blanket, a device used to extinguish fires
 * Hoover blanket (slang), newspaper used as a blanket by an impoverished person
 * Saddle blanket, form of horse blanket used as a protective covering for beasts of burden
 * Security blanket, any familiar object whose presence provides comfort or security to its owner
 * Space blanket, a lightweight reflective material used to keep users warm

Business

 * Blanket loan, a type of loan used to fund the purchase of more than one piece of real property
 * Blanket order, a purchase order for multiple delivery dates, used when there is a recurring need for expendable goods

Art, entertainment, and media

 * Blanket (album), a 2023 album by Kevin Abstract
 * Blanket, an album by Urban Species or the title track
 * Blankets (comics), a graphic novel by Craig Thompson
 * Blankets, an accompaniment album to Thompson's novel by American indie rock band Tracker

Government and politics

 * Blanket primary, the voting system employed in the United States
 * Blanket protest, a Northern Irish prison protest held in the Maze prison by republican prisoners
 * Blanketeers, a nickname given to the operatives involved in a public protest in 1817 England

Places

 * Blanket, Texas, United States
 * Blanket Independent School District

Plants and animals

 * Blanket (grape), another name for the French wine grape Clairette blanche
 * Blanket octopus, a species of octopus found in Northern Australia
 * Gaillardia pulchella (also called: firewheel, Indian blanket, Indian blanketflower, or sundance), a short-lived annual plant native to the United States

Earth science

 * Blanket bog, a bog lying over much of the countryside, formed in cool and very wet climates
 * Ejecta blanket, in geology, a layer of ejected material that surrounds an impact crater

Other uses

 * Blanket, nickname of Michael Jackson's third child
 * Blanket fort, a childhood construction of blankets, bed sheets, pillows, and sofa cushions
 * Blanket statement, a hasty generalization
 * Blanket stitch, a sewing stitch, typically used to edge blankets
 * Blanketing, interference caused by strong radio signals
 * Breeding blanket, a key part of many proposed fusion reactor designs
 * Markov blanket, a concept in machine learning
 * Pigs in blankets, a bacon-wrapped sausage popular in the UK and Ireland
 * Pigs in a blanket, a pastry-wrapped hot dog popular in the United States
 * Smallpox blanket, an early biological warfare agent used against American Indians