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Blanket
Cream with red and black strip blanket.
Warp-faced twill weave (3/1) with vertical stripes, each consisting of narrow, alternating stripes of three black and two red. Each narrow stripe is made from six warps. Two selvage-to-selvage widths joined together with hand-sewn seam down the middle. Top and bottom edges are finished with a black wool (?) braid which was stitched to the front and then folded backwards and is secured with three rows of machine stitches using white thread.