COLLECTING: Pendleton * Trade * Camp * Vintage * Beacon BLANKETS
I love collecting blankets and textiles… for years I have hoped to take vintage blankets and use them to recover a great pair of Old Hickory chairs that currently sit in our sun room. When looking for images for this post I also saw the idea of re-covering headboards with vintage blankets ~ LOVE that idea!! And there is also the idea of taking some blankets with holes and salvaging them for pillows or quilts…
So what is it about BLANKETS?? the colors, the textures, the HISTORY…
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“CAMP” blankets were originally manufactured from 1920 to 1940 by the Beacon Manufacturing Company. In fact they sold so many {21 million/year in the late 1930′s} that “Beacon” became a generic name for the cotton camp blanket. Beacon pitched its product as a modern marvel: a fluffier, less expensive, moth-proof alternative to wool that was easier to clean and just as warm. Their designs originally copied Navajo hand weavings although at their peak, Beacon produced as many as 1500 styles.
{via Country Living House of the Year 2009}
BRIEF HISTORY of Pendleton Blankets:
1909 ~ Brothers Clarence, Roy, and Chaunecry Bishop opened a wool factory in the town of Pendleton, Oregon. After studying the design preferences of area Native American tribes, Pendleton rolls out its debut Indian trading blanket, a jacquard weave.
1916 ~ The Bishop brothers partner with the National Park Service to produce a series of blankets celebrating treasured American landscapes.
1924 ~ Pendleton expands into men’s apparel with wool shirts.
1941 ~ During WWII, Pendleton devotes all its manufacturing to making blankets that keep American troops overseas warm.
{Pendleton History via Country Living, February 2010}
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