Chasing Rainbows: Collecting American Indian Trade & Camp Blankets

by Barry Friedman and Barry Friedman

At the end of the nineteenth century, Pendleton and other American woolen mills began manufacturing dazzling geometric-pattern blankets for trade and sale to the American Indian. In 1911 the Beacon Manufacturing Company began producing cotton blankets in Native American-inspired patterns. Known today as Indian camp blankets, they are coveted by collectors nationwide. Indian trade and camp blankets have become icons of Adirondack and western decor,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821227580
• ISBN13: 9780821227589
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.6" x 11.8"