Oregon City Woolen Mills
Six Element Banded Robe or Blanket
1921-1929
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Oregon City Woolen Mills
Six Element Banded Robe or Blanket
1921-1929
Physical Qualities
Wool weft, cotton warp, 74 1/4 x 64 1/2 in. (188.6 x 163.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.482
A rectangular, reversible wool blanket featuring stepped diamonds, and serrated designs arranged in bands. The pattern on the obverse consists of three wide bands of black with serrated red borders and stepped designs in red, black, green, deep maroon, gold, and off-white, alternating with two bands of narrower stripes in yellow, black, white, and mixtures of these colors with black diamonds filled with yellow and/or white. The blanket is woven in a double-faced weave (possibly double-faced satin). The reverse exhibits the same general pattern, but with interchanges in the weft colors thus producing bands of red with serrated black borders and connecting stripes of green, maroon, gold, black, and off-white with stepped designs in black and red, alternating with two bands of narrower stripes in yellow, black, gold, and mixtures of these colors with black-filled diamonds. The blanket is bound in green wool felt attached with two rows of machine stitching.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1991; Dena Katzenberg, Baltimore, MD.
Woven Rainbows: American Indian Trade Blankets
BMA Today, Winter 2005/2006, ill. p. 22.
General Catalog Showing Colored Engravings of The Pendleton Line, reprint of the 1915 catalog, Albuquerque, N.M.: Avanyu Publishing, Inc., 1987 (for general type, but Pendleton brand of blankets). Judith R. Weissman and Wendy Lavitt, Labors of Love: America's Textiles and Needlework, 1650-1930, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987, pp. 224-227 (for general type, but Pendleton brand of blankets). Robert W. Kapoun with Charles J. Lohrmann, Language of the Robe: American Indian Trade Blankets, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1992, pp. 87-101 (Oregon City Woolen Mills), p. 92 (this design illus. in 1926 catalog), p. 99 (this design illustrated).
Inscribed: Note: Remaining nap and indentations from stitching are found on the reverse side, lower right corner, where a label (approx. 1-3/4' x 2-1/8') was once attached. The label was removed at some time prior to the blanket being given to the Museum.
