Talk:Hudson's Bay point blanket

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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