Hudson Bay Point Blanket Coat

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Hudson bay point blanket coat.

Hudson s bay point blankets were used twice by admiral byrd s expeditions to the antarctic. A capote is a handmade wrap style coat often made from a hudson s bay point blanket. We are committed to the preservation education and promotion of hudson s bay company s history and the ongoing care and maintenance of the company s historical hbc corporate art artifact image and reference collections. This product is currently out of stock and unavailable.

Hudson s bay wool point blankets in the late 1700s wool blankets were so important to comfort and survival that they were used as a form of currency in trading between trappers and native americans. Point blanket coats remained popular in canada first as utilitarian garments later as fashion. Point blankets introduced to the north american wilderness in 1779. Hbc heritage is an internal department of hudson s bay company.

Capotes were worn by first nations métis french settlers traders trappers and later british settlers throughout the fur trade era. Beaver pelts were exchanged for blankets through the hudson s bay company and its outposts throughout northern canada. Made from hudson s bay point blankets these striped coats are iconically canadian. Capotes date back to the mid 17th century and are arguably the earliest iterations of the hudson s bay point blanket coat.