What do you call a blanket used for moving?

When renting a moving van you can also rent or buy blankets to wrap around your furniture to protect them while moving. They are typically not too pretty, most often gray, made from cotton fibers from recycled fabrics. What are such blankets called?

A small filing cabinet partially covered by a thick speckled-grey blanked with a single blue stripe. On the floor in front of the filing cabinet, there's another folded-up blanket that's also thick and gray, but more stripy than speckled.


In the US, they are called moving blankets, moving pads, and occasionally furniture pads or furniture blankets. [Google Images]

The term furniture pad is also used for anti-scuff devices attached to the bottom of furniture.


I just moved. The U-haul store called them "furniture padding". I have usually called them moving blankets.

http://www.uhaul.com/MovingSupplies/Protective-stuff/Furniture-Pad?id=2670