BLANKET DOCUMENTARY
Channel: Cartman sings
Date: 2021-04-18

This is a documentary about JACKSON55’S blanket and the story of where blankets came from. 

We documented this story to remember JACKSON55’S blanket when he gets older and doesn’t use it anymore. He’s 8 now so we have a few more years of him wanting it. It’s been part of his life sense he was born.

Although the word blanket is said to be of German origin, the blanket does not originate from Germany.  Blankets are prehistoric. The first blankets are said to have been made of animal skin, piles of grass and woven reeds. The evidence is said to be in ancient tombs around the world.

 
The woolen blankets that we know and love today, on the other hand, are said to have been pioneered by Thomas Blanket, a Flemish weaver and wool merchant who lived in England in the 14th century. 


This is not to say that Blankets were named after Thomas Blanket. The word is said to have been in existence at least a century before Thomas Blanket was born.

 
In fact, according to article “Man we have to thank for a good night’s sleep”, by The Bristol Post, Thomas Blanket is likely to have acquired his surname from making blankets the way blacksmiths in the medieval times were called Smith. What is true is that Thomas Blanket made and popularised the first bed coverings that were both effective and affordable.