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How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Barbara Teller Ornelas
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10 - Publisher: Thrums Books

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Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books about Navajo wea
Weaving a Navajo Blanket
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Gladys Amanda Reichard
Categories: Crafts & Hobbies
Type: BOOK - Published: 1974-01-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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Spinning, carding, and dyeing yarns, constructing a loom, tension, and the weaving processes are discussed in this guide to the art of blanket and saddleblanket
Swept Under the Rug
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Kathy M'Closkey
Categories: Antiques & Collectibles
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: UNM Press

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Debunks the romanticist stereotyping of Navajo weavers and Reservation traders and situates weavers within the economic history of the southwest.
Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: Ann Lane Hedlund
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-10 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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According to the Navajos, the holy people Spider Man and Spider Woman first brought the tools for weaving to the People. Over the centuries Navajo artists have
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Joe Ben Wheat
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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A history and description of southwestern textiles along with a catalog of Pueblo, Navajo, Mexican, and Spanish American blankets, ponchos, and sarapes.