Talk:Hudson's Bay point blanket

Earlier discussion
Please help with this discussion...he is wrong and I am right.

the stripes in the traditional, orginal blanket is red, green, yellow and .....I say black, he says indigo (BLUE).

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Look at HBC's web page: (http://www.hbc.com/hbcheritage/faq/pointblanketfaq/#7)

What colours have the blankets been made in?

Point blankets were traditionally made in plain red, white, green or blue fields with single bars of deep indigo near each end. In the fur trade era white was by far the most common colour, with bars in indigo, red, or blue. The multistripe pattern was introduced in 1798 and became very popular - so much so that it is sometimes known as "traditional".

The "Pastel Tones" - in sky blue, violet, reseda (green), gold and rose - were introduced in 1929. Designed to fit in with more modern décor they were tone-on-tone and featured bars and points in a deeper shade. These were joined by the mid 1930s by the "Imperial Tones" - Coronation Blue (Royal blue with red bars and points), Harvest Gold (with indigo) and Highland Heather (Royal purple with off white) - and the "Deep Tones", which included Coraline (vermilion red), Pine Green, Cranberry and Caramel. Hbc has an image in our photo collection of the Saskatoon store in 1939 and there are about 20 -25 different colours offered. Most of these colours were out of production by the 1960s. Today blankets are produced in the following colours:

* Multistripe * Brown Stripe - four stripes in shades of brown (introduced in 2000 as the Millenium pattern) * White with black bar * Scarlet with black bar * Green with black bar * White with blue bar

Hudson's Bay Company is from Canada
This article, about Canadian heritage, and a Canadian company, appears to be written from an American point of view. US currency, references to US importers, and a whole bunch of irrelevant US POV. The company itself mentions the quintessentially Canadian characteristics on this site: http://www.hbc.com/hbcheritage/history/blanket/

Anyway I see this is listed as "low importance" but I think we can do a bit better here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.129.210 (talk) 06:29, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I totally agree, checked the Bay website and put in current Cdn prices. I love my Bay blanket, it was a high school grad present. Very special. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.1.204.190 (talk) 21:21, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Linking to bed sizes
I appreciate this astute use of hypertext, but the bed sizes in the linked article are all over the map, and it might be easier to list the actual sizes in this article instead. Kortoso (talk) 19:48, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * From the HBC site []:


 * Twin: 3 1/2 points 60” x 86”
 * Double/Full: 4 points 72” x 90”
 * Queen: 6 points 90” x 100”
 * King: 8 points 100” x 108”
 * Kortoso (talk) 19:50, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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US retailers
Is the list of US retailers accurate? I checked LL Bean, for example, and of the 22 blanket styles it sells, only this blanket is remotely similar to Hudson's Bay point blanket. As you can see, although it is similar, it is not the same; moreover, the description states "a new take on the timeless trapper blanket: expertly made in the USA". Mind matrix  15:26, 26 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Agreeing with that the list of US retailers needs updating. Currently the text says:
 * The official licensee allowed to import Hudson's Bay Blankets into the United States for commercial sale is Woolrich Inc. of Pennsylvania. Four U.S. retailers as of 2012 sell the blankets to consumers: Woolrich, L.L.Bean, Getz's Department Store in Marquette, Michigan, and Johnson Woolen Mills.
 * However, I'm not able to find anything to substantiate this. And the info is as of 2012. It's almost 2024, and 12 years later I wonder if any of this is accurate, or if it should just be removed from the article. - Dyork (talk) 15:38, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Controversy
I thought there was some controversy surrounding these blankets. That they are seen by some as symbols of Canadian colonialism. That these very blankets might have been used to spread disease among the indigenous peoples. Perhaps someone might look into it and add something to the article, to either confirm or debunk it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.89.182.19 (talk) 08:13, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * There is some association with spreading smallpox, whether intentionally or not. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/uncovering-the-complicated-history-of-blankets-in-indigenous-communities-1.5264926/the-complicated-history-of-the-hudson-s-bay-point-blanket-1.5272430 and https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hudson-s-bay-point-blanket . Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:42, 7 September 2021 (UTC)