INVENTOR OF BLANKETS.
Tradition ascribes the invention of blankets to a Flemish weaver, Thomas Blanket, who settled in Bristol and fell on evil days. One bitterly cold night in the year 1340 Blanket and his wife could not sleep because of the lack of fuel and their scanty bed-covering. In despair he went into his workshop to find something to add to the bedclothes. He chanced upon a piece of rough, unfinished cloth which had been cast aside, and the great warmth derived from its use suggested the idea of manufacturing similar pieces a« -winter bedclothes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 23
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