Our family has been kind enough to equip us with some simply wonderful woolen blankets. Today,the sewer and tinkerer in me couldn't resist opening it up. So, while making the bed, I took a closer look at it.
Above is a picture of the whole blanket, we were given 2 of them I started by opening up a small corner. (Don't worry, any seams I opened, I closed right up afterwards)
Inside the outer fabric, there was a second layer, made of a rough muslin.
Inside that, there was lots of raw fleece. It didn't look like it had been thoroughly picked clean of straw and twigs before being made into a blanket. Just washed enough so that it doesn't have anymore lanolin on it.
The fleece inside the rough muslin fabric was quilted with large stitches, about 1 inch in length and spaced 2 inches apart.
Both of the blankets were supplied with duvet covers. Each duvet cover has a hole in the middle, positioned in order to display the fancier fabric on the inner square of the outer layer of the blanket.
The holes are decorated with embroidery.
When it's all put together, it looks very elegant- a far, far cry from the raw fleece within.
Properly made, the blankets use folded up to cover about half the bed.
The sleepers each then have their own little sleeping burrito blanket set up.
The final touch is a shiny light blanket to cover the whole thing, with a few decorative pillows.
And there you have it. The Anatomy of an Armenian Bedspread. It may not be on interest to anyone else, but I was curious...
great post !!!
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