Resource Materials

 
New Media...

Web Sites.   There has not been much information on the World Wide Web about Pendleton's National Park blankets, which is why I created this web site: to have a place to share what inforraton I have, and as a means to gather additional information about and images of b=vintahe National Park blankets.  This web site is the only one I'm aware of that is devoted to both vintage and new National Park blankets.  Harold Tichenor's web site explains point blankets, while others illustrate Pendleton's curent Indian trade, commemorative and National Park blankets.  

www.pointblankets.com.  Harold Tichenor's web site on point blankets, a good starting off point for learning about vintage trade blankets.      

www.nwmuseumstore.com.  The easiest  web site for viewing all of Pendleton's current blankets, including its eight national park blankets.  A wool browser's paradise.  

www.pendleton-usa.com/index.jsp/   Pendleton's corporate web site with images of most of its blankets, including all eight current national park blankets.  Nicely organized.

www.deweytrading.com.  The Dewey Trading Company offers many commemorative trade blankets celebrating the Southwest U.S.A.  Well worth a peek. 

www.babbittswholesale.com/  Information on Babbitt Brothers' Historic Babbitt Trading Posts Commemorative Blanket Series woven by Pendleton.  Their earlier series, sold out commemorative trade blankets are not pictured.  Look at Special Editions #1 and #2. 

Old Media ....

Books.  Very little has been written about Pendleton's national park series blankets, but there are some very good books about the development and variations of  Indian trade blankets, out of which the National Park blankets arose.  Recommended Books are:

 Friedman, Barry,  CHASING RAINBOWS - Collecting American Indian Trade and Camp Blankets, Bullfinch Press, Boston, MA. 2002, ISBN: 0-8212-2758-0.  The most comprehensive treatise written with a sense of humor, but only one sentence about national park blankets..

 Kapoun, Robert W., LANGUAGE OF THE ROBE - American Indian Trade Blankets, Gibbs Smith, Layton, Utah 1992, ISBN: 0-87905-468-9.  The ground breaking book in this area, with a good chapter on early 1990s commemorative trade blankets.

 Tichenor, Harold, The Collector's Guide to POINT BLANKETS of the Hudson's Bay Company and other companies trading in North America, Cintel Film Productions Ltd., Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada V0N 1G0, 2002, ISBN: 0-9731459-0-0.  Early Hudson Bay Company blanket history and a great introduction to Hudson Bay and other striped trade blankets having points as a major feature.  Mentions and pictures a few Pendleton national park blankets, a terra cotta 1928 Santa Fe and a straw Grand Canyon with points.

Magazine articles.  "Pendelton National Park Blankets, 1916 to 2006", by Fred Coldwell, published in the Spring 2007 issue of Airstream Life, is an 8 page article on these national park blankets.  You can order this issue directly from  Airstream Life .