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  2. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    The thick handspun yarns and synthetic dyes are typical of pieces made during the transition from blanket weaving to rug weaving, when more weavings were sold to outsiders. Commerce expanded after the Santa Fe Trail opened in 1822, and greater numbers of examples survive. Until 1880, all such textiles were blankets as opposed to rugs.

  3. Navajo trading posts - Wikipedia

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    In 1850, an American soldier characterized Navajo blankets as "the best in the world." [ 21 ] In the 1890s, traders began large-scale marketing of Navajo blankets and rugs to meet a growing demand. To increase production and often at the expense of quality, traders introduced new designs, aniline dyes , and manufactured wool and cotton yarn ...

  4. Art of the American Southwest - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Joe Ben Wheat examined thousands of 19th-century textiles, [25] with the goal of establishing "a key for southwestern textiles identification based on the traits that distinguish the Pueblo, Navajo, and Spanish American blanket weaving traditions and provide a better way of identifying and dating pieces of unknown origin.” The years of ...

  5. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Chilkat blanket in the collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, Alaska. Traditional textiles of Northwest Coast tribes are enjoying a dramatic revival. Chilkat weaving and Ravenstail weaving are regarded as some of the most difficult weaving techniques in the world. A single Chilkat blanket can take an entire year ...

  6. Manta (dress) - Wikipedia

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    A manta is a rectangular textile that was worn as a blanket or as a wrap-around dress. [2] When worn as a dress, the manta is held together by a woven sash. Mantas are worn by such indigenous peoples as the Navajo, [2] Hopi, and Pueblo peoples. Today they are worn during important ceremonies, such as weddings, [3] dances, and feast days

  7. Cowboy bedroll - Wikipedia

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    A vital part of this "bedding roll" was the "rubber blanket", a rectangle of heavy canvas with brass eyelets at the corners and edges, that was heavily coated with vulcanized "Goodyear" latex rubber. [ citation needed ] Each Federal soldier was issued one, but both sides write of having acquired two or more, either through capture or ...

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