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"Provides clear, step-by-step instructions, along with illustrations, for weaving Navajo rugs and Hopi ceremonial sashes in exactly the same way as the craftsmen of these two neighboring tribes have woven them for generations"--Cover.

Geraldine, a goat, describes each step as she and her Navajo friend make a rug, from the hair clipping and carding to the dyeing and actual weaving.

A survey of Navajo pictorial weaving which comprises over 170 examples selected from hundreds in museum and private collections as well as from major dealers in the field

"This book presents 74 color plates of Navajo rugs and wall hangings woven between 1971 and 1996. Drawn from a private southwestern collection, they represent the work of sixty of the finest native weavers in the American southwest. The creations depicted here reflect a number of styles - revival, sand-painting, pictorial, miniature, sampler - and a number of major regional variations, from Ganado to Teec Nos Pos." "Textile authority Ann Hedlund provides...

Navajo rugs from the Harmsen's Western Americana Collection.