Original Hudson S Bay Point Blanket

Today pcsoutdoors offers hudson s bay point blankets under the official license of the historic hudson s bay company.

Original hudson s bay point blanket.

The off white wool patterned with slender stripes of. Arctic fox lynx and most importantly beaver. The blankets continue to be sold by canada s hudson s bay stores and have come to hold iconic status in canada. In the late 1700s wool blankets were so important to comfort and survival that they were used as a form of currency in trading between trappers and native americans.

The company is named for the hudson bay and the blankets were typically traded to first nations in exchange for beaver pelts. 1 16 of 226 results for hudson bay blankets price and other details may vary based on size and color hudson s bay company 90 by 100 inch queen size 6 point blanket natural multi stripe. Beaver pelts were exchanged for blankets through the hudson s bay company and its outposts throughout northern canada. Make offer vtg hudson s bay pure wool blanket tango orange 4 point rare color full queen vtg hudsons bay england 100 wool green blanket 2 1 2 2 5 point twin size 159 19.

The hudson s bay company blanket may appear to be a fairly plain household item but it s perhaps the most remarkable blanket in the world. Typically the wool blankets were traded with native americans for pelts. One of the trading commodities most highly prized by the indians in exchange for their beaver pelts was the original hudson s bay point blanket. Shop hbc point blankets on thebay.

Make offer vintage hudson s bay company 4 point stripe blanket 100 wool made england euc vtg hudsons bay england 100 wool green blanket 2 1 2 2 5 point twin size 159 19. A hudson s bay point blanket is a type of wool blanket traded by the hudson s bay company hbc in british north america now canada and the united states during the 1700s and 1800s. These stripped blankets were created by the hudson s bay company in the northern part of north america in 1780. Very few blankets hold the iconic statusthat hudson s bay point blankets do.

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