Maragata Wool Blanket
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€239.00
€219.00 - €259.00
per item
This is a traditional woven "Maragata" bed blanket made with pure virgin sheep wool, elegant stripes and fringed finish. The Maragata blanket outstands for its designs and typical colours of the maragatería area. This bed blanket is made with 100% virgin sheep wool, all processed in one place and by one family making this a truly sustainable and local product.
The wool is 100% pure sheep, and the manufacturing processes create a light fabric that retains heat, while being perfectly breathable.
- measurements: 180x245 cm, 200x245cm or 220×245 cm.
- weight: 3Kg / 3.5 Kg.
Cleaning and care: Washing machine (wool programme) and neutral or special detergent for wool, avoiding spin.
WORLDWIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED
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Textile craft in Val de San Lorenzo, León (Spain) goes back to the XVII century when you could find up to 80 textile artisans in this village until the XIX century when there was a deep textile crisis in Spain. The maragato crafters had to mechanize their production to be able to compete with the rest of the world. By 1858, maragato blankets were among the most appreciated blankets in Europe and these tiny village weavers still use the traditional wool combing technique they used back then known as “hollow-fiber”, which means that in the fiber there is trapped air that offers natural insulation resulting in extremely warm blankets. Obtaining the colours, based on natural dyes, makes the Val blankets even more characteristic, as well as the Maragata legend "Hurray my owner" with which the merchants traveled in their carts, touring Spain, sheltering themselves with the blankets of the Val. Val de San Lorenzo. |
