This saddle blanket has thirteen vertical bands as its design element. the bands are alternating between red with inlays and solid gray. The design element pattern is as follows: Starting at the vertical selvage on the hole damaged end, a red band with a thin alternating black-brown band inlay, a gray band, a red band with an alternating white-black rectangle band inlay; this inlay has a lone brown rectangle within it, a gray band, a red band with an with an alternating black-white-brown rectangle band inlay, a gray band, a red band with an alternating black-white-brown rectangle band inlay; this is the central band which divides the blanket in half, a gray band, a red band with an alternating thin black-brown band inlay, a gray band, a red band with an alternating thin white-black band inlay, a gray band, a red band with an alternating thin black-brown band inlay; this is the opposite end selvage.