Pendleton
National Park Blankets, 1916 to 2010
Pendleton Woolen
Mill's series of National Park
blankets
are a celebration of the United States
unique
contribution to land use
planning, the national park. The strong
simple design
of
these blankets derives
from the early frontier days
of Indian fur
traders and
mountain
men.
Their labels from the 1920s
to 1950s frequently were
based on contemporary
travel decals and luggage stickers used
by the great
national parks. The points which
appeared on
these blankets from 1915 to 1938 came from early fur
trading practices and, for Pendleton, identified
the blanket's size and weight.
Their colors reflect
chromatic fashion over time and provide
a
window into
what our ancestors valued visually over the decades.
-- Crater Park (1960) and Crater Lake (1999)
-- Olympic (1963) -- Bryce Canyon (1992) -- Great Smoky Mountains (1997) -- Yosemite (2005)-- 2006-2007 National Park blankets
--
Contact the this web site's woolmaster.
--
Links to other relevant trade blanket web sites
and Resource
Materials.
-- Blanket terminology
helps you distinguish the warp from the weft.
Fine
print:
This web
site is not associated with and is independent of Pendleton
Woolen Mills, Inc., Portland, Oregon.
Pendleton
and many of
its National Park blanket names are registered trademarks of Pendleton
Woolen Mills, Inc, and are
used
here for
identification purposes
only. The woolmaster thanks Pendleton Woolen Mills for
its valuable assistance in helping
me
research these blankets
for an article that appears in the Winter/Spring 2007 issue of
Airstream
Life magazine (see Resource
Materials).
A follow-up article appears in the Winter
2009 issue
of Airstream
Life magazine