Weaving of the Southwest

Weaving of the Southwest PDF Author: Marian E. Rodee
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Book Description
This gorgeously illustrated book presents important information on Pueblo, Navajo, Rio Grande, and Northern Mexican weaving styles. Traditional and modern styles of blankets, clothing, and rugs are identified and explained in detail, with brief accounts of some of the old trading posts that sold them, along with discussions of family styles among weavers today.

Weaving of the Southwest

Weaving of the Southwest PDF Author: Marian E. Rodee
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Book Description
This gorgeously illustrated book presents important information on Pueblo, Navajo, Rio Grande, and Northern Mexican weaving styles. Traditional and modern styles of blankets, clothing, and rugs are identified and explained in detail, with brief accounts of some of the old trading posts that sold them, along with discussions of family styles among weavers today.

Blanket Weaving in the Southwest

Blanket Weaving in the Southwest PDF Author: Joe Ben Wheat
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816523047
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Book Description
A history and description of southwestern textiles along with a catalog of Pueblo, Navajo, Mexican, and Spanish American blankets, ponchos, and sarapes.

Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century

Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century PDF Author: Ann Lane Hedlund
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816524129
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Book Description
According to the Navajos, the holy people Spider Man and Spider Woman first brought the tools for weaving to the People. Over the centuries Navajo artists have used those tools to weave a web of beautyÑa rich tradition that continues to the present day. In testimony to this living art form, this book presents 74 dazzling color plates of Navajo rugs and wall hangings woven between 1971 and 1996. Drawn from a private southwestern collection, they represent the work of sixty of the finest native weavers in the American Southwest. The creations depicted here reflect a number of stylesÑrevival, sandpainting, pictorial, miniature, samplerÑand a number of major regional variations, from Ganado to Teec Nos Pos. Textile authority Ann Hedlund provides an introductory narrative about the development of Navajo textile collectingÑincluding the shift of attention from artifacts to artÑand a brief review of the history of Navajo weaving. She then comments on the shaping of the particular collection represented in the book, offering a rich source of knowledge and insight for other collectors. Explaining themes in Navajo weaving over the quarter-century represented by the Santa Fe Collection, Hedlund focuses on the development of modern rug designs and the influence on weavers of family, community, artistic identity, and the marketplace. She also introduces each section of plates with a description of the representative style, its significance, and the weavers who perpetuate and deviate from it. In addition to the textile plates, Hedlund's color photographs show the families, landscapes, livestock, hogans, and looms that surround today's Navajo weavers. Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century explores many of the important connections that exist today among weavers through their families and neighbors, and the significant role that collectors play in perpetuating this dynamic art form. For all who appreciate American Indian art and culture, this book provides invaluable guidance to the fine points of collecting and a rich visual feast.

A New Deal for Navajo Weaving

A New Deal for Navajo Weaving PDF Author: Jennifer McLerran
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816543240
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Book Description
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving provides a detailed history of early to mid-twentieth-century Diné weaving projects by non-Natives who sought to improve the quality and marketability of Navajo weaving but in so doing failed to understand the cultural significance of weaving and its role in the lives of Diné women. By the 1920s the durability and market value of Diné weavings had declined dramatically. Indian welfare advocates established projects aimed at improving the materials and techniques. Private efforts served as models for federal programs instituted by New Deal administrators. Historian Jennifer McLerran details how federal officials developed programs such as the Southwest Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory at Fort Wingate in New Mexico and the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild. Other federal efforts included the publication of Native natural dye recipes; the publication of portfolios of weaving designs to guide artisans; and the education of consumers through the exhibition of weavings, aiding them in their purchases and cultivating an upscale market. McLerran details how government officials sought to use these programs to bring the Diné into the national economy; instead, these federal tactics were ineffective because they marginalized Navajo women and ignored the important role weaving plays in the resilience and endurance of wider Diné culture.

Southwest Weaving

Southwest Weaving PDF Author: Stefani Salkeld
Publisher: Kiva Publishing
ISBN: 9780937808658
Category : Hand weaving
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Book Description
A catalog for a traveling exhibition of Native American folk art presents and describes hand-woven textiles from the Pueblo, Navajo, and New Mexico Hispanic village cultures

Swept Under the Rug

Swept Under the Rug PDF Author: Kathy M'Closkey
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826328328
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
Debunks the romanticist stereotyping of Navajo weavers and Reservation traders and situates weavers within the economic history of the southwest.

Southwest Textiles

Southwest Textiles PDF Author: Kathleen Whitaker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295982267
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Book Description
Explores the history and evolution of Navajo and Pueblo fabric arts, with 250-plus color illustrations of examples from the Southwest Museum's collection, 57 details of the works, and 49 historical photographs. Includes accounts of the early collectors and some of the colorful people who were involved in the founding of the museum and the shaping of its collection.

Navaho Weaving

Navaho Weaving PDF Author: Charles Avery Amsden
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Book Description
DIVFirst in-depth technical study of Navaho weaving—dyes, looms, other aspects. Over 230 illustrations, including more than 100 excellent photographs. /div

Spanish-American Blanketry

Spanish-American Blanketry PDF Author: Harry Percival Mera
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
ISBN: 9780933452220
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
In 1984, while studying textiles in the collections of the School of American Research, Kate Peck Kent discovered a manuscript on Spanish-American weaving by the late H.P. Mera, curator of archaeology at Santa Fe's Lab of Anthropology. This forgotten manuscript describes the origin and history of the distinctive textiles woven by Spanish-Americans in New Mexico. Kate Peck Kent was professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Denver, a research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a resident scholar at the School of American Research. Dr. Kent has also written Pueblo Indian Textiles and Navajo Weaving: Three Centuries of Change which describes and interprets the textile collections at the School of American Research's Indian Arts Research Center.

Collecting the Weaver's Art

Collecting the Weaver's Art PDF Author: Laurie D. Webster
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0873654005
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Book Description
This is the first publication on a remarkable collection of 66 outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by William Claflin, Jr. Claflin also bequeathed to the museum his detailed accounts of their collection histories, included here.