Home grown and highly prized: From blankets to blazers, Pendleton…
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- Home grown and highly prized: From blankets to blazers, Pendleton…
- The dreaded ‘s’ word
- Shipshape Bristol may hold winning hand
Home grown and highly prized: From blankets to blazers, Pendleton…
Seattle Times – Dec 19, 2004
Warm even when wet, the woolen blankets were prized not only for their beauty but for cutting the damp, Northwest chill that leaked into uninsulated longhouses. The blankets became a form of wealth, given in potlatch ceremonies, and used in trade and pawn. In the nearly 100 years since, Pendleton has grown its product line to include everything from high-WASP navy blazers to custom camouflage, woven on contract, to Indian-blanket-patterned dog jackets and commuter bags. The tribes? Some now operate casinos big as international airports. But the simple gift of an Indian trade blanket still has special meaning. “When you cover someone with a blanket,” Miller says, “you cover them symbolically with love. HIGH IN THE Blue Mountains above Pendleton, this band of more than 2,300 Rambouillet sheep is blissfully unaware of its venerable place in history…
Threads hanging from her hair, there is no doubt that Carole Carnes, a 21-year veteran of the Pendleton plant, is deep in her job, mouth pursed in concentration as she checks rolls of woven blanket fabric for extra threads or flaws. She plucks out errant threads with a pair of tweezers held on her wrist with a leather thong. “I always have lint in my hair when I go home,” she says. At this stage, the fabric looks more like a towel than a blanket. Finishing machines at the Washougal plant create the blankets’ characteristic soft, napped feel. Each blanket will be inspected again at Washougal, where workers examine every one by hand. Finishers cut the blankets to length, label them, sew on the felt binding and box them.
The dreaded ‘s’ word
The Age – Dec 19, 2004
Too many who aredesperate for soccer to succeed in Australia are caught up in theidea that their sport must dominate like it does elsewhere. Certainly, the big number of kids of all ethnicities playing thesport is a good reason to be optimistic soccer will grow here, justas it has in the US. Yet in the next few decades, soccer has littlechance of competing with the entrenched, home-grown Americanfootball. That might be partly because generally inward-thinkingAmericans could never fully embrace a foreign game. Or it mightjust be that, like some of us, they already think what they have isbetter. None of which means soccer does not have the right to fight forthe title of football. They can put it on their letterheads.
Shipshape Bristol may hold winning hand
Times Online – Dec 19, 2004
” Crompton reinforces his connection with Bristol by giving a thumbs-up to Hill’s recruitment drive to bring back players with a link to the city. Among them are scrum-half Ross Blake (Bristol GS) from Bath, lock Ed Pearce (Clifton College) from Montferrand (now Clermont Auvergne), centre Jon Pritchard (Colston’s) from Rotherham, former Scotland prop Dave Hilton from Glasgow, full-back Sean Marsden from Neath, and the most recent returnee, flanker Craig Short from Rotherham. He says Hill’s home-grown policy has got the public back behind the club, and average gates of 4,600, better than Leeds enjoy in the Premiership, are testament to how the rugby community has reunited. “I like the sense of the club going back to its roots and renewing its links with the local Combination clubs, like Dings Crusaders, who provided us with some players and the ground for Monday’s second-team game against Bath. The fans identify with the local boys, and there’s the mutual benefit of us helping the junior clubs and their young players having the chance to get to the top tier. ” Crompton says that the successful blending of the returnees, including players from Premiership days such as himself, Salter (Leeds) and No 8 Jim Brownrigg (Cardiff), with the talented under-21 side on which they rebuilt after relegation, has helped this season’s turnaround. Another factor, he says, is that the youngsters, with promising locks Olly Kohn and Ollie Hodge to the fore, have muscled up.