12 Facts About Navajo blankets

In Navajo blankets weaving, the slit weave technique common in kilims is not used, and the warp is one continuous length of yarn, not extending beyond the weaving as fringe.

The Navajo blankets obtained cotton through local trade routes before the arrival of the Spanish, after which time they began to use wool.

Spanish records show that Navajo people began to herd sheep and weave wool blankets from that time onward.

In 1804, a group of Navajo blankets were shot and killed there, where they were seeking refuge from Spanish soldiers.

Navajo blankets attempted to regulate the cleaning and dyeing process of artisans who did business with him, and shipped wool intended for higher grade weaving outside the region for factory cleaning.

Related searches

Navajo blankets appears to have been instrumental in introducing new motifs to Navajo weaving.

Contemporary Navajo blankets textiles have suffered commercially from two sets of pressures: extensive investment in pre-1950 examples and price competition from foreign imitations.

Red tones in Navajo blankets rugs of this period come either from Saxony or from a raveled cloth known in Spanish as bayeta, which was a woolen manufactured in England.

From 1920 to 1940, when Rambouillet bloodlines dominated the tribe's stock, Navajo blankets rugs have a characteristically curly wool and sometimes a knotted or lumpy appearance.

Navajo blankets used indigo to obtain shades from pale blue to near black and mixed it with indigenous yellow dyes such as the rabbit brush plant to obtain bright green effects.

Reds used in Navajo blankets weaving tended to be raveled from imported textiles.

Navajo blankets weaving aesthetics underwent rapid change as artisans experimented with the new palette and a new clientele entered the region whose tastes differed from earlier purchasers.