2nd Annual Midwinter Magic - Indian River Festival Fundraiser

1 x Queen size - Green blanket

Crafting beautiful wool blankets and wool yarn has been the specialty of MacAusland’s Woollen Mills of Prince Edward Island since 1932.  We are the only mill in Atlantic Canada still producing traditional woollen blankets of 100% virgin wool yarn. 

The MacAusland Blanket is a truly authentic handcrafted gift item of Atlantic Canada, made on P.E.I. from raw wool produced throughout the Atlantic region. The making of the blanket is an intricate and skilled craft. It begins with a washing of the raw wool, which is subsequently dried and picked to remove grit and open up fibers. The cleaned wool is then carded (combed) and spun into thread.  The thread is warped (woven over a loom), fulled (preshrunk), washed once again and dyed. Finally, the woven wool is dried, "napped" or brushed to make it fluffy and warm, cut into blankets, hemmed and folded.  The result is the unique MacAusland Blanket...warm, soft, durable and beautiful. MacAusland's Woollen Mills is a family business built on the traditional values of quality craftsmanship, beauty and durability. Carefully crafted from start to finish...the "Mill" still uses some equipment that was "state of the art" over a century ago. Today's MacAusland Blanket is still beautiful, warm and cuddle soft.

MacAusland's wool blankets have enduring quality. In recent years, a customer returned with the woollen blanket purchased before the Second World War to have the edges re-hemmed.

Value: $100