Treasure - Welsh vintage wool blanket

Took a trip to Brecon today, to have lunch in the the excellent Tower Cafe in St Mary's Church in the town centre (highly recommended, also for nice teas) and to mooch around the three antiques shops there.  We never seem to manage to get away without finding some treasure there, and today's treasure was something I've been looking out for since we came back to Wales 6 years ago - a vintage Welsh woollen blanket.  They are a) usually hideous expensive, b) often not in great condition, and c) frequently in colourways which are just too 'sweet' and pastel for my taste, so to find one which was reasonably priced, in superb, pristine condition, and with a nice punchy apricot stripe was just too good to pass by!  The flash photography makes it look a tiny bit pinker than it is, it's more peach/aqua in the flesh.

The guy I bought it from had got it as part of a stash of vintage blankets he had bought from a lady in her 80s who lived in a farmhouse near Trecastle, and who had lots of blankets stored in a traditional coffer (large wooden chest for storing blankets and linen).  Most date back to when she was setting up home, and many (I suspect including this one) had never or rarely been used.  It is beautiful, and really very pleasing.  The trick will be to keep the cat off it, somewhere so soft and woolly would be Sophie's idea of heaven!