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Here's what we know.

Sometime in the 19th century, by the 1850s at the latest, the English developed a new kind of bedding.

It was called the Charteline Blanket, and its saleable features were many.

It was warm, yet light, easily manipulable, and clean.

Above all, it was cheap, exceedingly cheap, because the chartiline blanket

was made of paper. Two large sheets of paper sewn together with cotton wool in the middle.

The paper in question was strong and resistant to tearing and treated to be soft and crinkilless,

at least in some cases.

It doesn't sound like a great idea, I'll grant, but chartling blankets were so cheap that you

could buy or make one for just one winter, then throw it in the fire and buy a new one,

no worries.

That is what we know.

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