The
Humble and Elegant Blanket
Museums and
local historical societies often have wonderful collections of
historic blankets. Among the former are the American Textile History
Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, George Washington’s Mount Vernon in
Virginia, and the New York State Historical Association in
Cooperstown.
FURTHER
READING
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The Blanket:
An Illustrated History of the Hudson’s
Bay Point Blanket
by Harold
Tichenor
Toronto: Quantum,
2002
(Available
used only - click image) |
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The Domestic
Manufacturer’s Assistant and Family
Director in the Arts of Weaving and Dyeing
by J. and R. Bronson
Utica, New York: 1817;
reprinted by
Dover Press, 1977
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Homespun to
Factory Made: Woolen Textiles in
America, 1776-1876.
North
Andover, Massachusetts:
Merrimack
Valley Textile Museum, 1977
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Textiles in
America, 1650-1870
by Florence
Montgomery
New York: W. W. Norton,
1984
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