A blanket was a type of fabric used for covering, protection, warmth, and bedding.
When Zare Leonis attended the Arkanis Academy on Arkanis, his Strategy and Tactics instructor Colonel Julyan sometimes kept his lower body wrapped in a black blanket. Holshef, a poet in hiding from the Galactic Empire for dissident ridings, made a nest of ratty pillows and blankets when hiding out at 1044 Chapel. Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan kept a baby blanket, made of gillendown, inside her keepsake chest.