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2. Pendleton Woolen Mills - Wikipedia

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   During World War II, 1941–45, Pendleton Woolen Mills devoted most of its production to blankets and fabric for uniforms and clothing for the US military services. In 1949, after postwar market research showed a desire for women's sportswear, the company introduced a line of wool clothing for women and the '49er jacket proved extremely popular.

3. Hudson's Bay point blanket - Wikipedia

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   The classic design featuring green stripe, red stripe, yellow stripe and indigo stripe on a white background. A Hudson's Bay point blanket is a type of wool blanket traded by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in British North America, now Canada and the United States, from 1779 to present. [ 1 ] The blankets were typically traded to First Nations ...

4. Pendleton, Oregon - Wikipedia

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   Pendleton Woolen Mills is a maker of wool blankets, shirts, and an assortment of other woolen goods. Founded in 1909 by Clarence, Roy and Chauncey Bishop, the company built upon earlier businesses related to the many sheep ranches in the region. A wool-scouring plant opened in Pendleton in 1893 to wash raw wool for shipping.

5. 20 Towns Where the Lawless Wild West is Still Alive and Well

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   Pendleton, Oregon. This Oregon city where "the West is still wild" began as a western trading post. ... which is still cranking out its iconic wool blankets after 150 years.

6. Mackinaw cloth - Wikipedia

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   Eva Marie Saint, on the left, and Marlon Brando who is wearing a Pendleton jacket with a zip fastening rather than the conventional buttons, in On the Waterfront, 1954. Mackinaw cloth is a heavy and dense water-repellent woolen cloth, similar to Melton cloth but using a tartan pattern, often "buffalo plaid". It was used to make a short coat of ...

7. This Pendleton Blanket Lookalike From a Celeb-Loved ... - AOL

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