[Five Vintage Postcards Showing Navajo Weaving]
Five unused postcards showing Navajo weaving. More
Navajo and Southwest Indian Textiles
The Origin, Development, and Distribution of Western Archaic Textiles
Salt Lake City: Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, 1970. 8 black and white figures 5 tables. Doctoral dissertation. An analysis of over 5,000 specimens of coiled, plaited and twined basketry from the three major Western Archaic textile complexes, the Oregon, the Eastern Nevada, and Western Basin complexes of western... More
Navaho Weaving
Santa Ana: Fine Arts Press, 1934. 6 color plates 123 black and white. First edition of this classic. Includes a 24 x 18 color fold-out plate and 12 figures. Repaired front free and paste-down end papers. More
Collecting the Navajo Child's Blanket
Santa Fe: Morning Star Gallery, 1986. 41 color plates. Colorful early examples. More
Navajo Textiles, The William Randolph Hearst Collection
Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1988. 200 mostly color illus. Magnificent collection assembled when prices were low. More
Cochineal: Aboriginal Dyestuff from Nueva España
Seville: Editorial Católica Española, 1966. Extract from Actas y Memorias: XXXVI Congreso Internacional de Americanistas. English text. No illustrations. More
Beyond Cloth and Cordage: Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000. 125 black and white. Scarce. Scholarly overview of current research on New World archaeological fabrics. "In recent years, archaeological textile research has undergone a major expansion in scope. Once primarily concerned with the simple description of fabrics, basketry, and cordage, textile researchers... More
Ethnographic Textiles of the Western Hemisphere: Irene Emery Roundtable on Museum Textiles, 1976 Proceedings
Washington: The Textile Museum, 1977. 208 black and white. Massive, inclusive. More
Navajo Textiles from the Read Mullan Collection
Phoenix: The Heard Museum, 1976. 52 color plates. Museum exhibition catalog of contemporary Navajo rugs. More
Archaeological Textiles: Irene Emery Roundtable on Museum Textiles 1974 Proceedings
Washington, D.C. The Textile Museum, 1974. Numerous black and white examples. Papers on Coptic, Pre-Columbian, Oriental, and North American textiles including cleaning, handling, mounting and conservation of archaeological textiles. More
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[Five Photographs Showing the Navajo Rug Weaving Process]
Pomona: Frasher's Fotos, [1932]. Five commercially printed photographs showing the steps involved to make a Navajo rug. These are not postcards. More
Painting with Wool: Navajo Pictorial Weavings
Sonoita, AZ: Nizhoni Ranch Gallery, 2016. 61 color illustrations of rugs. Sales and exhibition catalog of antique and modern Navajo pictorial rugs. The modern rugs have brief biographies of the weavers. More
Trees in a Circle: The Teec Nos Pos Story
Teec Nos Pos: Teec Nos Pos Trading Post, 1999. An inside look at a Navajo trading post that has been run by the Foutz family for four-generations, it is a stunning collection of photographs by Marcy Holquist displaying the unique weavings of the Teec Nos Pos region, located in the... More
Harmony by Hand, Art of the Southwest Indians: Basketry, Weaving, Pottery
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987. The weaving section is by Sarah Nestor and shows 18 color plates 6 black and white. More
The Saltillo Sarape
Santa Barbara, CA: New World Arts, 1978. 30 color plates. Exhibition catalog for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Basic reference for these Spanish-American woven blankets. More
The Navajo Blanket
Los Angeles: Praeger, 1972. 16 color plates 78 black and white. Important museum exhibition catalog. More
Eyedazzlers: Navajo Weavings and Contemporary Counterparts
New York: Hirschl and Adler Folk, 1989. Hirschl and Adler Folk Gallery exhibition and sales catalog. Fully illustrated in color including 8 plates of rugs and 5 plates of contemporary art. More
Saltillo Sarapes: A Survey 1850–1920
Chicago: McCormick Gallery, 2011. 57 color plates 50 monochrome photographs and drawings. Exhibition catalog of post-classic Saltillo sarapes. "This represents a seventy-five year period in which superb examples were produced with an expanded canon of design concepts and the benefit of newly available dyes and yarns. This was also an... More
The Centinela Weavers of Chimayo: Unfolding Tradition: A Brief History of Weaving in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley and Its Development Throughout Several Generations of Trujillos in Chimayo to the Present Family of Weavers
Chimayo: Treasure Chest Books, 1999. 46 color plates 23 historical black and white. Uncommon in Hardback. "More and more Native Americans are finding that their traditional crafts can provide a living today. The growing interest in collecting these crafts has created a need for books that define the quality of... More
Pueblo Indian Embroidery
Santa Fe: William Gannon, 1943. 3 color plates 23 black and white. First edition of this classic. Includes a copy of the 1975 reprint. Each black and white plate shows 4-7 design motifs. More
Navajo Shepherd and Weaver
New York: J.J. Augustin, 1936. 60 black and white 35 figures. Second printing, December 1936. More
Navajo and Hopi Dyes
Salt Lake City: Historic Indian Publishers, 1994. Scarce in hardback. Reprint of two important books on Native American dyestuffs. The first section is 79 pages and a reprint of Navajo Native Dyes, published in 1940 by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.The second section, 90 pages, is a reprint of... More
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American Indian Art and Ethnographica [February 9, 1991]
Bolton: Skinner, 1991. Sale #1353. Most lots illustrated in color and black and white. More
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American Indian Art at Auction [January 9, 1993]
Bolton: Skinner, 1993. Sale #1487. Most lots illustrated in color and black and white. More
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American Indian Art [June 26, 1993]
Bolton: Skinner, 1993. Sale #1519. Most lots illustrated in color and black and white. More