BLANKET, a coverlet for a bed. A stuff commonly made of white wool, and wrought in a loom like cloth; with this difference, that they are crossed like ferges.
When they come from the loom, they are sent to the fuller; and after they have been fullled and well cleaned, they are naped with a fuller's thistle.
There are blankets made with the hair of several animals; as that of goats, dogs, and others.
French blankets, called Paris mantles, pay duty 12s. 11 d. each, if coloured and the manufacture of France; otherwise only 5s. 116/10d. If uncoloured, and the manufacture of France, they pay each 9s. 82/10d. otherwise only 3s. 101/10d. Blankets imported into France, pay a duty of importation according to their fineness; namely, those of fine wool, six livres per piece; those of coarse and middling wool, three livres. None can be imported but by the way of Calais and St Vallery.