#beacon blanket

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Vintage 1940s wool beacon blanket

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“Beacon Blanket” Upstate New York

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Beacon Blankets

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Woven cotton indian pattern blankets were produced by two companies - The Beacon Manufacturing Company and Esmond Mills. 

Beacon began in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1905 and started making Indian patterns 5 or 6 years later. They opened another mill in Swannanoa, North Carolina in 1925 and eventually moved their entire operation there.   Esmond Mills was located in a section of Smithfield, Rhode Island known as Esmond. Esmond was Beacon's largest competitor not only in Indian patterns, but also in many other types of woven cotton blankets. 

The blankets were originally made from pure cotton, but in later years the mills began using cotton blended with synthetics such as rayon and acrylic.

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