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<p>[QUOTE="Joan, post: 9504418, member: 5398"]To me it looks like a 1940's Beacon or Beacon-style camp blanket. They were made of wool, wool/cotton blend, all cotton, or cotton/rayon blend. Yours looks like it has faded from many washings. </p><p><br /></p><p>Camp blankets weren't fringed like yours, but the hem could have come loose and frayed from washing over the years. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the photos it looks to me more like cotton or cotton/rayon blend than wool. Cotton blankets can get little holes when the fibers weaken from years of use and washing. </p><p><br /></p><p>You could snip off a few of the fringes and do a burn test (carefully with a match over a heat proof dish or surface--I hold the fibers with a tweezers and touch the fiber ends with a match, then drop the fibers onto a dish when they start burning). If the fibers smell like burning paper, leaves, or wood, it's cotton. If it smells like burning hair, it's wool. If you can't decide what it smells like, it's probably a wool/cotton or cotton/rayon blend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Joan, post: 9504418, member: 5398"]To me it looks like a 1940's Beacon or Beacon-style camp blanket. They were made of wool, wool/cotton blend, all cotton, or cotton/rayon blend. Yours looks like it has faded from many washings. Camp blankets weren't fringed like yours, but the hem could have come loose and frayed from washing over the years. In the photos it looks to me more like cotton or cotton/rayon blend than wool. Cotton blankets can get little holes when the fibers weaken from years of use and washing. You could snip off a few of the fringes and do a burn test (carefully with a match over a heat proof dish or surface--I hold the fibers with a tweezers and touch the fiber ends with a match, then drop the fibers onto a dish when they start burning). If the fibers smell like burning paper, leaves, or wood, it's cotton. If it smells like burning hair, it's wool. If you can't decide what it smells like, it's probably a wool/cotton or cotton/rayon blend.[/QUOTE]
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