WILLIAMSBURG — For generations, Navajo women crafted colorful, boldly designed blankets and rugs on hand looms, drawing inspiration from everyday objects and the changing world around them. Six of ...

Aug. 23—MIDLAND — The Museum of the Southwest is delighted to present Hands on the Loom: Dine' Textiles Past and Present. Native America textiles are embedded in American popular culture. From ...

And it's not just a chief's blanket, it's the first type of chief's blanket made. These were made in about 1840 to 1860, and it's called a Ute, first phase. GUEST: A Ute, first phase, wearing blanket.

Although their name is unknown, a Navajo weaver made this wearing blanket between 1860 and 1865. The School for Advanced Research acquired it in 1931, and it’s in the collection of SAR’s Indian Arts ...

Chief’s Blanket, Navajo Nation (1865-1870); Warp: native handspun wool, Weft: native handspun wool and raveled wool; Gift of Rex and Pat Lucke (All images courtesy of the Art Museums of Colonial ...

Navajo classic first, second, and third phases were made as wearing blankets and not for sale to visitors from the East. As we get into the latter part of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, ...

PENDLETON, Ore. -- It's gray and rainy outside, but colors burst from dozens of wool trade blankets hanging on the walls of the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute at the Umatilla Indian Reservation.