IF THESE THREADS COULD TALK…

IF THESE THREADS COULD TALK…

1930’s Cotton and Wool Camp Blanket Chore Coat Designed Cut and Sewn by Robert Pennington Price Design for Assemblage333.

1930’s Camp Blanket Chore Coat

This textile is soon to celebrate it’s centennial birthday. Originating in the Northeast it found it way to St. Louis Missouri where it was neatly folded and perched at the foot of a white wrought Iron bed with brass ball finials. When the eldest daughter married and moved to McKinney Texas the blanket was packed and traveled west across the Mississippi River on the backroads to northeast Texas where she and her husband worked in agriculture.

Cozy and Warm

The blanket rested, folded at the foot of an oak frame bed. Seldom was it used since temperatures in Texas rarely dropped low enough to pull it up. As the years passed so did the husband and wife. Their children packed the camp blanket in a cedar chest where it remained for decades until an estate sale. Tin Star Trading Company bought the blanket from the estate sale in a beautiful Victorian home in McKinney. They sourced the blanket to Robert and he has transformed it into this wearable folk art available on his website. If these treads could talk.

Note: Robert sells at five popups a year; Brimfield: May July and September. Roundtop: March and October

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PS: Tin Hart Trading Company can be found in Tin Star Field in Warrenton during Round Top as well as other venues.

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