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Pendleton has been weaving wool in Oregon since 1909, and is best known for the trade blankets it has made for Native American nations for over a century. What remains here is the lighter side

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About Pendleton clothing

The company traces back to Thomas Kay, an English weaver who arrived in Oregon in 1863 and eventually opened his own mill in Salem. His grandsons, the three Bishop brothers, took over an idle mill in the town of Pendleton in 1909 — eastern Oregon was sheep country and the town was a major wool railhead, so it made sense to weave where the wool was.

What the mill became known for was the trade blanket. Geometric patterned robes and shawls made for the Umatilla, Cayuse, Nez Perce and Walla Walla nations, and later traded far wider. Pendleton has produced them continuously since 1909, and the patterns you see on the bottles here come out of that same archive.

Pendleton overshirts, tees and accessories

The two heaviest pieces are the Parachute Overshirt and the Chore Jacket — both cotton rather than wool, cut as a layer to wear over a tee rather than as outerwear proper, which makes them the useful three-season option in this range. The tees run to the Deschutes pocket tee, the Agate Beach and the Lasso, all plain cotton with small chest branding rather than the large graphics the brand sometimes does.

The two insulated bottles are the pieces most worth a look if you already know Pendleton. Both are 34oz and both carry mill patterns — Century Harding and Canyon Land — so they do the thing a blanket does at a fraction of the price and size. The patchwork flat brim cap uses offcut fabric, which is why no two are quite alike.

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Pendleton FAQs

Wool blankets above all. The mill in Oregon has been weaving trade blankets since 1909, originally for the Umatilla, Cayuse, Nez Perce and Walla Walla nations, and the patterns from that archive appear across everything the company makes. The clothing side grew out of the same mill in the 1920s.
Pendleton Woolen Mills is based in Portland, Oregon, and still operates its own mills in the American Northwest, where the wool blankets and fabrics are woven. Not everything in the wider range is made there — check the individual product page if origin matters to you.
They come from the mill's blanket archive. Many are drawn from or inspired by Native American design traditions and have been in production for decades, which is why the same patterns turn up on a bottle, a blanket and a shirt. The National Park series is the other recurring family, based on the striped blankets made for the US park system.
No. Pendleton is best known for wool, but the overshirt, chore jacket and tees stocked here are cotton, and the bottles are steel. If you are after the wool blankets or shirts the mill is famous for, they are not part of this selection.