An exclusive digital review featuring a collection of stories spotlighting weavings and textiles from the pages of Native American Art
Few categories within Native American art are as touchable as weavings and textiles. Other art forms are fragile or delicate, or are meant to hang on a wall away from hands. Yet weavings can be worn as blankets or clothing, they can be...
The Heard Museum delves into a superb collection of Navajo textiles and the stories behind them during an exhibition on view through fall 2021.
A 140- to 150-year-old Navajo transitional blanket may have been intentionally woven to form sacred symbols when folded in certain ways. Or perhaps it’s simply a nice weaving.
A look at the origins and early historical development of these secular Navajo weavings and their ceremonial themes.
Crafted for special ceremonies among the Diné people, dress panels are more than works of art, they’re a lasting part of material culture.