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  2. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    Earlier Navajo textiles have strong geometric patterns. They are a flat tapestry-woven textile produced in a fashion similar to kilims of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, but with some notable differences. In Navajo weaving, the slit weave technique common in kilims is not used, and the warp is one continuous length of yarn, not extending ...

  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. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Stereotypes. Taboos. Critics. This Navajo cultural advisor is ...

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    Navajo cultural advisor George R. Joe explains the painful history, and present-day controversies, that shaped his work on AMC crime drama 'Dark Winds.'

  8. Manta (dress) - Wikipedia

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    Navajo woman's fancy manta, wool, ca. 1850-1865, collection of the Arizona State Museum [1] 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.

  9. 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 ...