Early's Witney 4 Point Wool Blanket--date? quality vs. Hudson Bay
2024年11月10日 · Your wool blanket is finished and ready to go for another 100 years. This won't make your blanket waterproof but it will shed water like a duck. Lanolin will restore and preserve wool's amazing properties. After reconditioning your fresh and clean point blanket will be softer and warmer with the extra loft.
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2020年3月28日 · All that to say, I think there's a lot of things you can do--unrelated to a wool blanket--that will make sleeping in 30-32*F possible with only a wool blanket. But, it depends on how you want to spend your time on a trip and if you're up for the risk of getting it wrong and having a crappy night (or scrapping the attempt and getting into a back ...
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2010年8月14日 · Wool blanket smell I just purchased 3 new OD Green 90/10% Wool Blend Blankets from Canteenshop.com for my son, wife and myself. The smell however is too overwhelming for my wife. The blankets are brand new and it has that oil smell to it. I don't know how else to describe it. For those of you who owns one, you know what smell I'm talking about.
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2022年3月27日 · Here’s a closeup of the Alpaca Warehouse next to a virgin wool eBay find. You can see the warp and weft through the alpaca blanket, but on the heavyweight wool it’s completely hidden by the nap. So for a hundred and forty bucks shipped, for a 50/50 wool alpaca blend, and for a king size blanket, 103”x90” it’s a good purchase.
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2014年12月31日 · A tent and sleeping bag is quick and easy, but a tarp and wool blanket requires site selection, modification, time, and it's still at the mercy of the wind. Were I to do a long thru hike, the tent and bag would be the route to go. For survival-type scenarios a tarp and wool blanket are good training wheels for the real thing.
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2019年2月19日 · I think the advantage of a wool blanket is its versatility. I went camping this last weekend in temps from 30 - 42*. I tested out my wool GI casualty blanket (cheap, thin) as a match coat. I was wearing wool socks and sneakers, slacks and thermals, tee shirt and a flannel shirt underneath the blanket.
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2024年10月26日 · It is my favorite wool blanket next to my wool blanket from Bushcraft Spain. If you have your heart set on the original Ektos blanket sometimes they show up for sale on Ebay. And maybe the new virgin wool blanket isn't as bad as some reviewers say. The original blanket also had plenty of bad reviews, but that wasn't my experience. Good luck!
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2021年1月4日 · Two sets of merino wool longjohns are no more weight or bulk than the wool blanket, offer adjustable warmth, and depending upon what blanket you were dealing with, might even be less cost. A real deal Hudson's Bay Queen sized is $700 on Amazon, ferchrissakes and such a blanket is only good to about 30F, without a fire.
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2012年7月25日 · Try slipping a space blanket between the poncho and poncho liner. You will be pretty warm. The crinkling might get to you. I don't mind, as long as I am warm. The wool blanket, if it is 80+% wool, will be warmer than the liner. The liner alone can start to get too cold for me around 50* F. Try putting on a wool sweater and hat.
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2011年6月29日 · To keep it as a blanket: You could trim a strip off of one of the edges that is the same width as the diameter of the holes to use as patch material. Then do a blanket stitch on the cut edge. To use it for a capote: Make the capote, then use the scrap to patch the holes. (If there are any scraps left over.