Navajo Weaving: Three Centuries of Change (Studies in American Indian Art)

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For over three centuries, Navajo Indian weavers have borrowed techniques, materials, and design styles from their Indian, Hispanic, and Anglo neighbors in the American Southwest, modifying them to suit their own aesthetic and functional requirements.

Kate Peck Kent traces the history of Navajo weaving from about 1650, when loom processes were first learned from the Pueblo Indians, to the present day, when Navajo textiles have become world renowned and highly collectible for their beauty. Kent examines the cultural characteristics that have encouraged stylistic diversity and change among Navajo weavers and explores the impacts that trade with surrounding peoples had on materials and styles.

Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Navajo Weaving is the classic introductory text on this appealing Native American art form.