Plaid blanket

[The29thtn]

Re: Plaid blanket

I also have to ask if anything like this would be coming in on blockade runners with the British imports?

[The29thtn]

Re: Plaid blanket

First, is it a natural or modern dye? Second, what's your impression? In my second question the point is how would a soldier in your primary impression have received such a blanket. Not likely an issue item. Then you're down that slippery slope of "sent from home." If it was sent from home, how did it get there in the first place? If it's a Tennessee impression, you've got ever increasing swaths of the state which are behind Federal lines. This means that the odds of something like this being found at home are small and sent from home even smaller.

It's easier to stick with a recognized blanket along the "common, everyday, plain" school of reenacting. Stands out less that way.

It's probably modern dye, but can't tell. Yes, I do, generally, an East Tennessee impression, and it would be a civilian blanket. I also spend a lot of time doing Longstreet's Knoxville campaign of 63.

[The29thtn]

Re: Plaid blanket

sort of all of the above, but I'm pretty sure the pattern is usable since it's been in continued use from the 18th century to today.

[Silas]

Re: Plaid blanket

First, is it a natural or modern dye? Second, what's your impression? In my second question the point is how would a soldier in your primary impression have received such a blanket. Not likely an issue item. Then you're down that slippery slope of "sent from home." If it was sent from home, how did it get there in the first place? If it's a Tennessee impression, you've got ever increasing swaths of the state which are behind Federal lines. This means that the odds of something like this being found at home are small and sent from home even smaller.

It's easier to stick with a recognized blanket along the "common, everyday, plain" school of reenacting. Stands out less that way.

Re: Plaid blanket

I would like to help but I am kind of confused about the question you are asking.
Are you asking:
1. Is the blanket itself authentic? Or
2. Is the weave period correct? Or
3. Is the pattern correct? Or
4. All of the above.

[The29thtn]

I have searched the site and the internet, but have not had much in the way of a satisfactory answer to my question. I have a 100% wool plaid blanket that my mother gave me, and I have used to some extent to keep from hurting anyone's feelings. However, I have gone back in forth in my mind on its authenticity. Some campaigners don't seem to have a problem with it, and some don't like it. I'm not an expert on weaving, but I'll show some close up pictures and hopefully someone will have an idea. I do know that the pattern in the blanket dates to the 18th century, and it is one of main plaids used by the British military up to present times. I do know that crazy plaids are a no no, but this is a pretty standard plaid that's been around well before the war. The label it originally had says Highland Tartan Tweeds of Scotland. I have been unable to find anything out about this company in particular let alone their manufacturing process. I suppose the first question is if it's a correct looking construction, if not than it sort of kills the whole thing.