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2. Chatham Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   The new mill no longer needed water power, but instead used steam engines to power generators. The mill made only yarn until 1893 when they began to produce fabrics as well. That was the year that they made the first Chatham Blanket. In 1895 the company started making wool suiting fabric and brought a tailor from New York to make suits. [2]

3. Faribault Woolen Mill Company - Wikipedia

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   Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century the facility grew gradually. Faribault Woolen Mills led the market with new products like washable wool and thermal weave blankets. In the early 1970s the company saw its greatest profit and made the largest addition to its facility. [4] In the 1990s, the Mill began to struggle.

4. Pendleton Woolen Mills - Wikipedia

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   The family resumed the production of Jacquard blankets and introduced new designs, colors, and patterns to their product line. They also changed the construction of the mill's blankets. Prior to 1909 the blankets had round corners. The Bishop blankets featured square corners.

5. 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.

6. 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 .

7. Barkcloth - Wikipedia

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   It is made by beating sodden strips of the fibrous inner bark of these trees into sheets, which are then finished into a variety of items. Many texts that mention "paper clothing" are actually referring to barkcloth. Some modern cotton-based fabrics are also named "barkcloth" for their resemblance to these traditional fabrics.

8. Clearwater Paper - Wikipedia

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   Clearwater Paper Corporation is an American pulp and paperboard manufacturer. The company was created on December 9, 2008, via a spin-off from Potlatch Corporation and is headquartered in Spokane, Washington.

9. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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   Chilkat blanket in the collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, Alaska. Traditional textiles of Northwest Coast tribes are enjoying a dramatic revival. Chilkat weaving and Ravenstail weaving are regarded as some of the most difficult weaving techniques in the world. A single Chilkat blanket can take an entire year ...