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My dear Mr. Carlton,

The blankets that you sent by messenger have been received and it has given me great pleasure to examine them and I hope that the following data concerning them may give you the information that you desire. I have taken the liberty of placing numbers in blue pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the tags on the blankets, these numbers corresponding with the ones that follow;

Blanket No. 1 is a [[doublesaddle]] blanket made of native and alien wool. It is known by an Indian name which means the blanket that folds backward upon itself. In it, you have the native white wool, the gray wool - formed by carding white and black together, the blue, made with alien dyes, and the red alien strands which have been raveled and [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] THEN [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] reworked in connection with the native woof. The Navajos have never had a good red dye that could be used in blanket work, hence the early adaptation of the foreign textile materials that could be [[strikethrough]] used [[/strikethrough]] EMPLOYED. [[strikethrough]] in their blanket work. [[/strikethrough]] They have never had a native blue that could be used in dyeing wool. The earliest blue to be found in their weaving work, other than those obtained [[by]] raveling alien textiles, was obtained from the Spanish in the form of indigo. They became so particular in the selection of the indigo they would not barter for it unless it passed certain tests which assured the proper color when applied to wool. 

Blanket No. 2 is a double saddle blanket made of bayeta AND NATIVE WOOL. THIS BAYETA IS - a [[ravelED]] strouding of Spanish [[strikethrough]] or English [[/strikethrough]] origin. ENGLISH BAYETA [[strikethrough]] WAS [[/strikethrough]] ALSO WAS USED. That from Spain is usually [[strikethrough]] procured [[/strikethrough]] DARKER [[strikethrough]] THAN [[/strikethrough]] than the English product and much of it is Moorish. [[strikethrough]] A weave [[/strikethrough]] THE WOOF strand of the bayeta is used in their work in the form of the original [[strikethrough]] THREADS [[/strikethrough]] THREADS. To procure the woof, the bayeta is cut into narrow strips from which the warp pieces are readily drawn. These short strands are sometimes used in connection with their native white wool; the intermingling of the fibers produce a pink color. The pink strips in this blanket are made of this combination.