Download or read book How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman written by Barbara Teller Ornelas and published by Thrums Books. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books about Navajo weaving, but no other book like this one. For the first time, master Navajo weavers themselves share the deep, inside story of how these textiles are created, and how their creation resonates in Navajo culture. Want to weave a high-quality, Navajo-style rug? This book has detailed how-to instructions, meticulously illustrated by a Navajo artist, from warping the loom to important finishing touches. Want to understand the deeper meaning? You'll learn why the fixed parts of the loom are male, and the working parts are female. You'll learn how weaving relates to the earth, the sky, and the sacred directions. You'll learn how the Navajo people were given their weaving tradition (and it wasn't borrowed from the Pueblos!), and how important a weaver's attitude and spirit are to creating successful rugs. You'll learn what it means to live in hózhó, the Beauty Way. Family stories from seven generations of weavers lend charm and special insights. Characteristic Native American humor is not in short supply. Their contribution to cultural understanding and the preservation of their craft is priceless.
Download or read book C N Cotton and His Navajo Blankets written by Lester L. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the Ohio-born trader C.N. Cotton, who went to Arizona and New Mexico to trade with the Indians in the late 19th century, eventually settling in Gallup, New Mexico, where his trading post played a leading role in promoting the sale of Navajo blankets. Includes facsimilies of three early catalogs of Navajo blankets and rugs.
Download or read book Weaving a Navajo Blanket written by Gladys Amanda Reichard and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinning, carding, and dyeing yarns, constructing a loom, tension, and the weaving processes are discussed in this guide to the art of blanket and saddleblanket weaving
Download or read book Navajo Rugs and Blankets written by Chuck Mobley and published by Rio Nuevo Publishers. This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has thoroughly researched the subjects depicted in these coloring books, insuring that the drawings and information are as authentic as possible. Most are color-by-number. Ages 6 and up.
Download or read book The Navajo Blanket written by Mary Hunt Kahlenberg and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1972 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in memory of Ethel A. Tsutsui, Ph.D. and Minoru Tsutsui, Ph.D.
Download or read book Language of the Robe written by Robert W. Kapoun and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the history of the trade blanket to contemporary collectible blankets to designs of the major trade blanket manufacturers such as Pendleton Woolen Mills, Racine Woolen Mills, and Buell Manufacturing Company, Language of the Robe presents the bright colors and intricately woven patterns hallmark to American Indian trade blankets.
Download or read book Blanket Weaving in the Southwest written by Joe Ben Wheat and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and description of southwestern textiles along with a catalog of Pueblo, Navajo, Mexican, and Spanish American blankets, ponchos, and sarapes.
Download or read book The Goat in the Rug written by Charles L. Blood and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geraldine, a goat, describes each step as she and her Navajo friend make a rug, from the hair clipping and carding to the dyeing and actual weaving.
Download or read book Navajo Textiles written by Nancy J. Blomberg and published by . This book was released on 1988-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Randolph Hearst's collection of Navajo textiles is one of the most complete gatherings of nineteenth-century Navajo weaving in the world. Comprising dozens of Classic Period serapes, chief blankets, Germantown eyedazzlers, and turn-of-the-century rugs, the 185-piece collection was donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History in 1942 but for the next forty years was known only to a handful of scholars. Hearst began acquiring textiles from the Fred Harvey Company after viewing an exhibit of Indian artifacts. Over four decades he amassed a collection spanning more than a century of Navajo weaving and including nearly every major type produced from 1800 to 1920. Hearst's passion for American Indian artifacts was so strong that he had originally visualized his now-famous castle in San Simeon as a showplace for his Navajo textile collection. At a time when the Harvey Company was itself influencing the development of Indian handcrafts by opening up the tourist market, Hearst contributed to this influence by expressing his own artistic preference for rare and unusual pieces. This catalogue raisonné, featuring nearly 200 illustrations, provides the general public with the first look at this important collection. Nancy Blomberg's narrative introduces the reader to the history of Navajo weaving and documents Hearst's role in its development. The heart of the book provides a detailed analysis of each textile: fibers, yarn types, dyes, and designs. Navajo Textiles thus constitutes an invaluable reference for scholars and collectors and will be enjoyed by anyone who appreciates these beautiful creations from the Navajo loom.
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Navajo Rugs written by Marian E. Rodee and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to identifying and dating rugs by means of weaving materials, providing historical background on the great Navajo weavers and traders.
Download or read book The Navajo and His Blanket written by Uriah S. Hollister and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agnes Martin Navajo Blankets written by Agnes Martin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a selection of paintings created by Martin throughout her career, together with exceptional Navajo handwoven textiles from the 19th century, the exhibition will illuminate parallels between these exquisitely-crafted and transcendent bodies of work. Most of the woven works in the exhibition were created in the form of the ?chief-style? blankets by Navajo women working on indigenous vertical looms in their homes. Developed beginning in the 1750s, this bold-banded style worn around the shoulders by both men and women became a popular object of trade to high-level members of other tribes, military officers, and travelers throughout the American West, Southwest, and Northern Plains. By the mid-19th century, the Navajo chief blanket was one of the most valued garments in the world. The design spectrum of chief blankets includes four inter-figured phases, defined by their increasingly elaborate banding, coloration, and placement of foreground motifs. The chief blankets in this exhibition span the full range from first through fourth phases plus unusual variants. They and several classic serapes, dresses, and mantas (shawls) represent exceptionally rare examples of each type, rivaling museum and private collections worldwide.00Exhibition: Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, USA (28.09-28.10.2018) / Pace Gallery, New York, USA (14.11.-21.12.2018).
Download or read book Ray Manley s The Fine Art of Navajo Weaving written by Steve Getzwiller and published by Ray Manley Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color photographs accompanied by descriptions of styles, locations and histories of Navajo rugs.
Download or read book Navaho Weaving written by Charles Avery Amsden and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in-depth study of the technical aspects of Navaho weaving, plus history of the loom and its prototypes in the prehistoric Southwest, analysis and description of weaves, dyes, and more. Over 230 illustrations.
Download or read book Spider Woman s Children written by Barbara Teller Ornelas and published by Thrums Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post. Their family and clan connections give them rare insight, as this volume takes readers into traditional hogans, remote trading posts, reservation housing neighborhoods, and urban apartments to meet weavers who follow the paths of their ancestors, who innovate with new designs and techniques, and who uphold time-honored standards of excellence. Throughout the text are beautifully depicted examples of the finest, most mindful weaving this rich tradition has to offer.
Download or read book Navajo Blanket written by Mary Hunt Kahlenberg and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navajo and Hopi Weaving Techniques written by Mary Pendleton and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides clear, step-by-step instructions, along with illustrations, for weaving Navajo rugs and Hopi ceremonial sashes in exactly the same way as the craftsmen of these two neighboring tribes have woven them for generations"--Cover.
