Bates & Innes cream and blue Vintage Wool Mothproofed Blanket Limited Edition 1952

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Pure Wool
Bates & Innes
1952
Limited Edition
Mothproofed

6' x 6'9"

Excellent vintage condition. no holes or smells. The blue is a lovely chambray/denim hue

One small minor stain shown in last 2 photos ( barely visible on one side).
7th photo is of blanket on a King sized bed.

Has been cleaned using Woolite at-home dry-cleaning sheets.

From lindaseccaspina.wordpress.com

Ron W. Bates and J.A. Innes took over the woolen mill built by Archibald McArthur in 1871. Located on a man made island in the Mississippi River in Carleton Place, this 4 story stone mill had several owners before they purchased it in 1907. It was built of rubble wall construction – with exterior and interior walls of one foot thick limestone blocks with another foot of gravel between. The turbine wheels are still visible today, mounted on free standing timbers outside the stone walls to prevent the end of the mill from being shaken and damaged.

During World War One, the firm was busy meeting military needs for blankets, underwear, cloth and knitted puttees. They were the first mill in Canada to use flat-lock seams on heavy rib combinations.
During the Second World War, the mill ran night and day in all departments, providing military blankets, underwear, puttees and and a long run on a 40 ounce knitted duffle cloth, with water proofing treatment that was used in naval pea jackets. The wheeling yarn department turned out tens of thousands of pounds of yarn for the Canadian Red Cross to be hand knit by the women of Canada into warm socks, mitts and sweaters for the men overseas.

Bates and Innes ceased operations in 1963, due, in part, to the introduction of synthetic fibres.

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Very cozy and in great condition.


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