{"id":25,"date":"2018-12-24T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblankets.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2022-07-03T17:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T17:12:46","slug":"what-is-a-point-blanket","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pointblankets.com\/index.php\/what-is-a-point-blanket\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a point blanket ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" src=\"http:\/\/pointblankets.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wallbridgedet3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\"\/><figcaption><em>View of Wallbridge Stroud mid to late 1780s, artist not known. Showing blankets drying on racks (red, white, blue) outside mill. (Courtesy of the Museum in the Park, Stroud District Museum Service, Stratford Park, Stroud, Glos. GL5 4AF.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A point blanket is generally made of wool (although many American ones used some cotton in their weaving) and has one or more fine lines, called &#8220;points&#8221; woven into one edge of the blanket. These blankets can be found in many styles, but are most often simple in design with one or more bars or stripes, called &#8220;headings&#8221; on each end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first book <em>The Blanket: an Illustrated History of the Hudson&#8217;s Bay Point Blanket<\/em>  has a very detailed section on the manufacture of these blankets describing the process originally used when they were hand woven, as well as the modern manufacturing techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image clearfix\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" src=\"http:\/\/pointblankets.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/handweave3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\"\/><figcaption><br><em>Nineteeenth century photograph showing blanket weavers at their looms. (The Witney Blanket Industry, Alfred Plummer, 1934, Routledge)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A point blanket is generally made of wool (although many American ones used some cotton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblankets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblankets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblankets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblankets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblankets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pointblankets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/pointblankets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblankets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}