Electric blanket shell and method of production

An electric blanket shell comprising:

• 1. first and second needled textile fabrics in juxtaposition to each other and each fabric having textile fibers needled together into an integral, coherent structure;
• 2. a yarn layer disposed in at least one of the first and second needled fabrics and said yarn layer having a plurality of first planar yarns extending generally in a first planar dimension of the needled fabric;
• 3. a heat fusible component disposed in at least one of the first and second needled fabric;
• 4. a plurality of small, discrete fusion bonds spaced from each other which link the first needled fabric to the second needled fabric to form a blanket shell and a series of patterns across a planar dimension of the blanket shell which patterns define a series of channels between the first and second needled fabrics, said patterns of fusion bonds being disposed in a direction traverse to the direction of the said first planar yarns of the yarn layer;
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• wherein the fusion bonds of any one traversely extending pattern do not engage more than about 50 percent of the said first planar yarns and wherein overlaps of fusion bond patterns are substantially avoided.