A dark heathered gray heavyweight all-wool blanket. 88" long x 55" wide. No seams. 4 lb. weight; heavily fulled. Manufactured by the Warrnambool Woollen Mill Co., Ltd. of Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. Original oaktag tags removed from the blanket during the 1979 inventory and now housed in the accession file, give the following information: "Working man's use; Invoice price in Melbourne - $1.75; With compliments of the government of Victoria." The dark heathered gray of the blanket is broken by a wide blue vertical stripe at center, and a similar stripe horizontally across the upper third of the blanket. Where the two stripes cross is a block of intense blue. The top and bottom raw edges have been finished with a matching bright blue blanket stitching. The sides are selvages. Warrnambool Woollen Mill first opened in the 1880s, but only became successful after it re-opened in a new mill building in 1910. The company had a blanket contract with the Australian government during World War I. The company was taken over by another firm in the 1960s. The mill building is now part of an adaptive reuse residential development. The Warrnambool Woollen Mill Co. exhibited blankets and flannels at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. This blanket may have been part of their display. It may have been acquired by the US National Museum in 1915, at the end of the Exposition, as an example of the kind of blankets available to British Empire soldiers during the Great War, which the US had not yet entered.