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Albany Woollen Mills Wartime Standards Blanket

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Albany Woollen Mills

Overview

Cream woollen blanket with a light cream blanket-stitching on top and bottom edges. Has a small blue text with white background cotton makers label fixed to the lower righthand side corner.

Historical information

The Albany Woollen Mills, also known as Worsted and Woollen Mills Ltd., was Western Australia’s first woollen mill. It was officially opened on 5 February 1925. In 1963 it was one of four mills to be awarded defence contracts for the production of 160,000 army blankets.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2025.10.3

Item type

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 2

Material

Width

1610 mm

Height or length

1870 mm

Weight

1188 g

Inscriptions and markings

On label “GUARANTED PURE WOOL / ALBANY / BLANKET / MADE TO STANDARD / WARTIME FABRICATION”

Contextual information

This is a good example of an Albany Woollen Mills manufactured blanket for the Australian Department of Defence during wartime condition.

Keywords

Albany Woollen Mills

Second World War

Place made

Albany, Western Australia, Australia

Primary significance criteria

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Historic significance

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Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Well provenanced

Google Maps search term / URL

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gWHZtRH1mm24SAjK8

Geotag

-35.030449, 117.912878
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Last modified

Monday, 15 December, 2025

Completeness

88

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