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  2. Hudson's Bay point blanket - Wikipedia

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    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 in exchange for beaver pelts as an important part of the North American fur trade .

  3. Lizhnyk - Wikipedia

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    A collection of several different Lizhnyks. A lizhnyk (Ukrainian: Ліжник) or Hutsul blanket is a patterned wool blanket and rug [1] created by Hutsuls, a group indigenous to the Carpathian Mountains of western Ukraine.

  4. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    The ratio of weft to warp threads had a fine count before the Bosque Redondo internment and declined in the following decades, then rose somewhat to a midrange ratio of five to one for the period 1920–1940. 19th-century warps were colored handspun wool or cotton string, then switched to white handspun wool in the early decades of the 20th ...

  5. Blanket - Wikipedia

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    Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, (right section) by Claude Monet Blanket vendors in a market in Algeria. Many types of blanket material, such as wool, are used because they are thicker and have more substantial fabric to them, but cotton can also be used for light blankets. Wool blankets are warmer and also relatively slow to burn compared to cotton.

  6. North Star Woolen Mill - Wikipedia

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    The North Star Woolen Mill, now the North Star Lofts, is a building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.The building, located in the St. Anthony Falls Historic District, was originally a textile mill for the North Star Woolen Company.

  7. Basotho blanket - Wikipedia

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    Seana Marena: [6] Means chief's blanket or to swear by the king: This particular blanket is exclusively worn by the king and his chiefs, it has the highest status of all Basotho blankets. Lehlosi: [7] A Chiefly blanket made of patterns from the skin of wild cat or leopards. At present, one will often observe chiefs wearing commercially ...

  8. Knitting - Wikipedia

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    Yarn for hand-knitting is usually sold as balls or skeins (hanks), and it may also be wound on spools or cones. Skeins and balls are generally sold with a yarn-band, a label that describes the yarn's weight, length, dye lot, fiber content, washing instructions, suggested needle size, likely gauge/tension, etc. It is common practice to save the ...

  9. Berlin wool work - Wikipedia

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    Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint that was particularly popular in Europe and America from 1804 to 1875. [1]: 66 It is typically executed with wool yarn on canvas, [2] worked in a single stitch such as cross stitch or tent stitch, although Beeton's book of Needlework (1870) describes 15 different stitches for use in Berlin work.

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