This pictorial Navajo weaving shows two arrows each going in the opposite directions. They are surrounded by two Greek key type of borders. The colors are muted and soft, in brown, beige and gray. The weaving is very well framed with high quality plexiglass. I apologize for the poor photos showing all the reflections.
This Navajo single saddle blanket may be a double weave, with the colors in reverse on the back, but I have not taken it out of the frame to check. The beading in the weaving shows two different densities, with the top and lower portion a finer beading, and the middle, which is larger than […]
Six black and white bands with beading are spaced between six all white bands. This makes up the body of the blanket. The top and bottom have a solid black band 4 1/4″ wide which includes three star like elements evenly spaced. There are both warp and weft selvages and four corner tassels. The blanket […]
This is a sweet and well done child’s manta or shoulder blanket. Three roughly equal bands of mixed colors are spaced top, center and bottom. The background is an off white. Triangles in brown, gray, white and orange make up a complex yet very readable system of rectangles and triangles. Each white band has one […]
This is a rare, smaller, Zuni child’s manta with indigo blue as the diamond twill borders on the top and bottom. The body of the blanket is woven in a diagonal twill. Some of the warps are indigo, which is unusual, and this gives the brown body of the blanket a sense of green coloring. […]
Navajo weaver Shirley John is famous for this type of pictorial scene rug. Here we have a Navajo dance going on, with spectators all around sitting on the ground. In the foreground are sheep (with one black sheep). Amongst the scene is are hogans, the lead singer sitting on a throne type of chair, wagons, […]
This third phase chief blanket is woven in hand spun wool. The white and brown yarns are natural colors. The red yarn is white dyed with synthetic red. The off-purple color is white yarn dyed with a purple dye. There are sectional lines throughout and the edging is down with warp and weft selvage cords. […]
This is a wonderful Rio Grande blanket, and highly unusual compared to what I have seen thus far. It is woven in two parts of very soft and supple churro wool. Its design is based on the infamous Mexican saltillo serape. Following in course with the saltillo design, we have the diamond center on a […]
This is a nicely woven Chimayo blanket in the style of a Moki with the a fine banding system alternating between light grey and dark grey. Made with all wool, four – plied yarns.
This is a soft, late classic, Navajo blanket woven of churro wool. I found this to be an unusual example with the deep indigo green adjacent to each band of indigo blue. It’s rare to find this much green in a banded blanket. It is purely banded, with 6 groups consisting of three bands of […]
