The Hudson’s Bay wool point blankets were first produced for the company in 1779 by a British textile mill, which used stripes or “points” to indicate the size of the blanket. The blankets ...

The Hudson's Bay Company blanket, manufactured in Oxfordshire had lines woven into it, indicating price. The Indians had long had their own complex trading network, but now a new commercial ...

The Hudson’s Bay Company point blanket, which has been produced since ... Hudson’s Bay has used some 28 labels since 1890, a practice that began so that it could differentiate its England ...

Stories exist within Indigenous communities that smallpox was spread by blankets from the company, but that has never been proven by historians. The complicated history of the Hudson's Bay point ...