Barry Friedman is Pendleton Woolen Mills' vintage Indian blanket consultant and Ralph Lauren's primary source for antique Indian blankets. He supplied all the vintage blankets for Martin Scorsese's film Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Twelve years in the making, Still Chasing Rainbows is the
long-anticipated sequel to Chasing Rainbows, the bible of Indian trade and
camp blanket collecting.
Whereas most sequels are a rehash of the first book, that is not the
case here. Hundreds of spectacular blankets not previously published anywhere
are included in this volume. There are 101 pages devoted to the complete
history of Indian blanket production at Pendleton Woolen Mills.
Two previously unknown Indian blanket catalogs
from the legendary Buell Manufacturing Company are beautifully reproduced and
every dazzling Beacon camp blanket gets its own full page. Evocative historic
pictures of Indians and their blankets are liberally sprinkled throughout the
volume.
Pendleton Woolen Mills opened its archives
to Barry and glass artist Dale Chihuly permitted complete access to his
collection - the largest ever assembled.
Collectors throughout the world provided their rarest blankets for
inclusion in this tome and the result is even more spectacular than Chasing Rainbows (although you should
still buy multiple copies of Chasing
Rainbows.)
The specs: 10” by 12”, 5 pounds, 304 pages,
315 color photographs and 95 black-and-white photos.
THE CHAPTERS
· WHAT’S THE POINT?
· J. CAPPS & SONS
· RACINE WOOLEN MILLS
· BUELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY
· PENDLETON WOOL SCOURING AND PACKING
COMPANY
· THE CUSTOMERS: UMATILLAS, CAYUSES AND
WALLA WALLAS, OH MY!
· ROUND AND ROUND: THE ORIGINAL PENDLETON
WOOLEN MILLS 1896-1908
· BUNDLING UP WITH THE BISHOPS
· DEFINITIVE DESIGN: THE RAWNSLEY CORNER
· THE DAVIDSON DOCUMENTS
· A SQUARE DEAL: PENDLETON WOOLEN MILLS
1909-1942
· PATTERNS FOR POSTERITY: THE CHIEF JOSEPH
AND THE HARDING
· ARCANA FROM THE ARCHIVES: PENDLETON IN
BLACK AND WHITE
· OREGON CITY WOOLEN MILLS
· BEACON MANUFACTURING COMPANY
· A PERILOUS JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN
· LABELS AND NOTHING MORE