Types of blanket

• Afghan blanket
  Afghan blanket
  An afghan is a blanket, wrap, or shawl of colored yarn. It is knitted or crocheted, often in geometric shapes. It can also be referred to as a "throw". Afghans were first made in Afghanistan and commonly featured geometric designs with many holes in the pattern. They are hand-stitched or knitted...
  
  , a colored wool knitted or crocheted in geometric shapes

• Blanket sleeper
  Blanket sleeper
  The blanket sleeper is a type of especially warm sleeping garment worn primarily during the winter in the United States and Canada...
  
  , a one-piece, footed sleeping garment
• Electric blanket
  Electric blanket
  In the US the electric blanket is a blanket with an integrated electrical heating device usually placed above the top bed sheet. In the UK and Commonwealth, electric blanket commonly refers to an electric mattress pad, which is placed below the bottom bed sheet. Electric blankets usually have a...
  
  , an electrically heated bedding material
• Fire blanket
  Fire blanket
  A fire blanket is a safety device designed to extinguish small incipient fires. It consists of a sheet of fire retardant material which is placed over a fire in order to smother it ....
  
  , a device used to extinguish fires
• Hoover blanket (slang), newspaper used as a blanket by an impoverished person
• Saddle blanket
  Saddle blanket
  The terms saddle blanket, saddle pad and saddle cloth refer to blankets, pads or fabrics inserted under a saddle. These are usually used to absorb sweat, cushion the saddle, and protect the horse's back. Saddle blankets have been used for many centuries with all types of saddles...
  
   or horse blanket
  Horse blanket
  A horse blanket or rug is a blanket or animal coat intended for keeping a horse or other equine warm or otherwise protected from wind or other elements. They are tailored to fit around a horse's body from chest to rump, with straps crossing underneath the belly to secure the blanket yet allowing...
  
  , a protective covering for beasts of burden
• Security blanket, any familiar object whose presence provides comfort or security to its owner
• Space blanket
  Space blanket
  A space blanket is a blanket used in emergencies to reduce heat loss in a person's body caused by thermal radiation, water evaporation and convection.-Manufacturing:First developed by NASA in 1964 for the US space program, the material consists of a...
  
  , a lightweight reflective material used to keep casualties warm

In business

• Blanket loan
  Blanket loan
  A blanket loan, or blanket mortgage, is a type of loan used to fund the purchase of more than one piece of real property. Blanket loans are popular with builders and developers who buy large tracts of land, then subdivide them to create many individual parcels to be gradually sold one at a time...
  
  , a type of loan used to fund the purchase of more than one piece of real property
• Blanket order
  Blanket order
  A blanket order is defined as an order the customer makes with its supplier which contains multiple delivery dates scheduled over a period of time, sometimes at predetermined prices. It is normally used when there is a recurring need for expendable goods. Hence, items are purchased under a single...
  
  , a purchase order for multiple delivery dates, used when there is a recurring need for expendable goods

In entertainment

• Blanket (album) and Blanket (song) by Urban Species
• Blankets (graphic novel)
  Blankets (graphic novel)
  Blankets is an autobiographical graphic novel by Craig Thompson, published in 2003 by Top Shelf Productions. As a coming-of-age autobiography, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood...
  
  , a graphic novel by Craig Thompson
• Blankets (album), an accompaniment album to Thompson's novel by American indie rock band Tracker
  Tracker (band)
  Tracker is an American indie rock ensemble from Portland, Oregon. The act was founded in 1998 by John Askew, a freelance audio engineer and writer for Tape Op magazine.-Background:...
  
  

In government and politics

• Blanketeers
  Blanketeers
  The Blanketeers or Blanket March was a demonstration organised in Manchester in March 1817. The intention was for the participants, who were mainly Lancashire weavers, to march to London and petition the Prince Regent over the desperate state of the textile industry in Lancashire, and to protest...
  
  , a nickname given to the operatives involved in a public protest in 1817 England
• Blanket primary
  Blanket primary
  The blanket primary is a system used for selecting political party candidates in a primary election in the USA. In a blanket primary, voters may pick one candidate for each office without regard to party lines; for instance, a voter might select a Democratic candidate for governor and a Republican...
  
  , the voting system employed in the United States
• Blanket protest
  Blanket protest
  The blanket protest was part of a five year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners held in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. The republican prisoners' status as political prisoners, known as Special Category Status, had...
  
  , a Northern Irish prison protest held in the Maze prison by republican prisoners

Plants and animals

• Blanket flower or Indian blanket, a short-lived annual plant native to the United States
• Blanket octopus
  Blanket octopus
  Tremoctopus is a genus of pelagic cephalopods, containing four species that occupy surface to mid-waters in subtropical and tropical oceans. They are commonly known as blanket octopuses, in reference to the long transparent webs that connect the dorsal and dorsolateral arms of the adult females...
  
  , a species of octopus found in Northern Australia

Other uses

• "Blanket", nickname of Prince Michael II, Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
  's third child, in the Jackson family
• Blanket bog
  Blanket bog
  Blanket bog or blanket mire is an area of peatland, forming where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration, allowing peat to develop not only in wet hollows but over large expanses of undulating ground. The blanketing of the ground with a variable depth of peat...
  
  , a bog lying over much of the countryside, formed in cool and very wet climates
• Blanket fort
  Blanket fort
  A blanket fort is a construction commonly made using blankets, bed sheets, pillows, and sofa cushions. It is also known as a couch fort, pillow fort or sheet fort....
  
  , a childhood construction of blankets, bed sheets, pillows, and sofa cushions
• Blanketing
  Blanketing
  Blanketing is interference caused by strong radio signals. Although the spectral mask of a radio station's transmitter suppresses spurious emissions on other frequencies in the band, being extremely close to a station may allow them to still be strong enough to cause significant interference...
  
  , interference caused by strong radio signals
• Blanket stitch
  Blanket stitch
  The blanket stitch is a stitch used to reinforce the edge of thick materials. Depending on circumstances, it may also be called a whip stitch or a crochet stitch. It is defined as "A decorative stitch used to finish an unhemmed blanket...
  
  , a sewing stitch, typically used to edge blankets
• Ejecta blanket
  Ejecta blanket
  An ejecta blanket is a generally symmetrical apron of ejecta that surrounds crater; it is layered thickly at the crater’s rim and thin to discontinuous at the blanket’s outer edge....
  
  , in geology, a layer of ejected material that surrounds an impact crater
• Markov blanket
  Markov blanket
  In machine learning, the Markov blanket for a node A in a Bayesian network is the set of nodes \partial A composed of A's parents, its children, and its children's other parents. In a Markov network, the Markov blanket of a node is its set of neighbouring nodes...
  
  , a concept in machine learning
• Pigs in a blanket
  Pigs in a blanket
  Pigs in blankets Pigs in blankets Pigs in blankets (also known as worstenbroodjes or saucijzenbroodjes (dutch), kilted sausages (UK), pølse i svøb (danish) refers to different sausage-based foods in the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Australia, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia,...
  
  , a culinary dish in the United Kingdom and United States
• Smallpox blanket, an early biological warfare agent used against American Indians