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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. Art of the American Southwest - Wikipedia

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    Navajo textiles, such as handwoven blankets and rugs, are highly regarded, valued for over 150 years, and an important element of the Navajo economy. [27] Navajo textiles were originally utilitarian blankets for use as cloaks, dresses, saddle blankets, and similar purposes. Toward the end of the 19th century, weavers began to make rugs for ...

  5. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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

  6. Melissa Cody - Wikipedia

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    Melissa Cody (born 1983) is a Navajo textile artist from No Water Mesa, Arizona, United States. Her Germantown Revival style weavings are known for their bold colors and intricate three dimensional patterns. [1] [2] Cody maintains aspects of traditional Navajo tapestries, but also adds her own elements into her work. These elements range from ...

  7. File:Ye'ii tapestry, Navajo, c. 1920-1930, McNay Art Museum ...

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    English: Ye'ii tapestry, Navajo, Native American, ca. 1920-1930, wool, dyed and natural color yarns. 61 x 92 in (154.9 x 233.7 cm), McNay Art Museum. Date:

  8. Narrative quilting - Wikipedia

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    The Star Quilt pattern in quilting is an eight-pointed star. It has had many names throughout history, including the Morning Star, the Star of Bethlehem, the Lone Star, the Star of the East, the Mathematical Star, and more. This pattern was widely adopted and used throughout Indian communities, and became a symbol of their cultural identity.

  9. Navajo - Wikipedia

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    Navajo weaver with sheep Navajo Germantown Eye Dazzler Rug, Science History Institute Probably Bayeta-style Blanket with Terrace and Stepped Design, 1870–1880, 50.67.54, Brooklyn Museum Navajos came to the southwest with their own weaving traditions; however, they learned to weave cotton on vertical looms from the Pueblo peoples.

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