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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Longest Seamless Blanket - world record set
by Pendleton Woolen Mills
PORTLAND, OR, USA -- Pendleton
Woolen Mills unveilled, during the Portland
Home & Garden Show, a jacquard blanket  measuring
453 feet, 7.25 inches which sets the world record for the
Longest
Seamless Blanket.
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photo)
The world's
Longest Seamless Blanket measures 331,800 sq inches,
2,303 sq feet (that is more square footage than the average
house in Portland, Oregon.)
The world's
Longest Seamless Blanket was made in the “Geronimo”
pattern, a design dating back to the 1900s. The Geronimo pattern
is one of Pendleton's oldest designs dating back to the early
1900s.
The Pattern is called Geronimo
as the original blanket design was owned by Geronimo and he
was photographed wearing this Pendleton blanket design.
It took five people to unroll the world's
Longest Seamless Blanket, stretching it out along
an aisle in the E Building of the Portland Expo Center
while notaries and officials with rolls of measuring taped
watched and counted.
The world's
Longest Seamless Blanket was made with wool from 100
sheep and is on display during the Portland
Home & Garden Show at the Expo Center in North Portland.
This is a Northwest effort; the yarn for
the blanket was dyed, carded and spun at Pendleton's Washougal,
Washington mill.
The blanket is 82% pure virgin wool/18% cotton and
woven in Pendleton Woolen Mill's Pendleton, Oregon mill, which,
in 2009, celebrated its centennial year.
The world's
Longest Seamless Blanket was washed, felted and bound
in Pendleton's Washougal, WA mill. The blanket features coordinating
black felt binding.
Pendleton's jacquard looms, which were
used to weave The Largest/Longest Seamless Blanket required
778 minutes to weave. Typically the looms weave one blanket
in 12 minutes.
The Worlds
largest and longest seamless blanket, woven by Pendleton
Woolen Mills, will travel to a variety of locations (follow
it on Facebook)
throughout 2010.
The world's
Longest Seamless Blanket will be offered for sale
for $12,700 with the proceeds going to charity or at the end
of the year the blanket will be divided up and donated to
charity.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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