We were very pleased to receive an order from Buckingham Palace this week for one of our gorgeous baby blankets. Hainsworth, our parent company, are accustomed to dealing with exclusive customers and are renowned for supplying the cloth for the Guards Tunic Scarlet uniforms and have been awarded the prestigious Royal Warrant for supplying Her Majesty the Queen with interior fabrics.

The testing is now well underway and we’ve managed to iron out most of the preliminary issues with equipment. Upon initial analysis, it would seem that the John Atkinson merino wool blanket could be helping the sleeper maintain a more constant skin temperature and a lower overall heartbeat. Subjective feedback has indicated that the sleepers have woken feeling rested after a good nights sleep under the John Atkinson woollen blanket. During the warmer nights, synthetic products have seen bedding temperatures fluctuating by up to 9 degrees. It’s still too early to make any definitive comments but the results seem very promising.  Keep counting those Sheep!

Here at John Atkinson, we have been up against it this week. A hotel in Ireland placed an urgent order for made to order black blankets. Black is not a colour we have done before and is not part of our current colour range, however we are always pleased to make bespoke blankets for large orders. After a great deal of hard work and fantastic examples of teamwork we have successfully managed to fulfill the order and look forward our next challenge.