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  2. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    Navajo textiles were originally utilitarian weavings, including cloaks, dresses, saddle blankets, and similar items. By the mid-19th century, Navajo wearing blankets were trade items prized by Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and neighboring tribes. Toward the end of the 19th century, Navajo weavers began to make rugs for non-Native ...

  3. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Navajo rugs are woven by Navajo women today from Navajo-Churro sheep, other breeds of sheep, or commercial wool. Designs can be pictorial or abstract, based on historic Navajo, Spanish, Asian, or Persian designs. 20th century Navajo weavers include Clara Sherman and Hosteen Klah, who co-founded the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.

  4. Native American fashion - Wikipedia

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    The Navajo style that influenced the creation of Squaw Dresses was itself an adaptation of European styles by Navajo women. [91] The bodice of a Squaw Dress drew from Western Apache and Tohono O'odham styles. [92] Squaw dresses were popular in the United States for around 20 years. [93]

  5. Margaret Wood (fashion designer) - Wikipedia

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    Wood began her career as a teacher immediately upon earning her degree, but after a year continued with graduate studies at the University of Denver. [2] She earned a master's degree in library science with a thesis A Survey of Library Services Available to Navajo People on the Navajo Reservation in 1973 and that year began working as the librarian of the Navajo Community College in Tsaile ...

  6. How Gen Z Navajo weaver Naiomi Glasses's collaboration with ...

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    In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Ralph Lauren this month announced its partnership with Diné (Navajo) textile artist Naiomi Glasses.The seventh-generation weaver became the brand’s ...

  7. Navajo dolls - Wikipedia

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    Navajo Dolls describe a style of clothing that Navajo women copied from east coast American society in the 1860s. Women of that era wore full dresses made out of satin. President Lincoln's wife and friends wore full dresses made of satin. Navajo women copied the patterns but substituted velvet for the satin and made buttons out of nickels and ...

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