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My latest vintage finds – blankets!

Yet more yummy Vintage finds, this time vintage blankets.

Vintage Blankets

My travels this week unearthed some of the most gorgeous Welsh Tapestry Wool blankets and a rare green and black 4 Point Witney Early’s Wool Blanket – which were traditionally traded with the Hudson Bay Company.

My family think I am a bit potty. They cannot understand how I can get giddy over such things as textiles, but I can’t help myself…. All I know is that I am a very happy bunny in my slightly puddled textile bubble.

vintage blanket - 4 Point Witney Early's Wool Blanket
4 Point Witney Early’s Wool Blanket

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Fox Flannel Archive – fabric manufactured during WW1

The Fox Flannel archive, recognised as ‘the most significant textile company archive in the British Isles’ by the County Heritage Officer in 2010, includes over 400 volumes containing business documents and samples dating back to the company’s first year of trading.
The Fox Flannel Archive from Fox Brothers & Co Ltd

The Fox Archive from Fox Brothers & Co Ltd

This note in the archive is a document detailing the materials supplied by Fox Brothers during WW1 (1914-1918). A scan of the original document detailing the order is available for you to view on this page and shows that Fox Brothers supplied a total of over 8,000 miles of cloth to the British and Allied governments, using 10,000 tons or 900 trucks of wool…… I gasp to think of what it took to produce this amount of cloth – noisy machines and the huge workforce of women doing war work.

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