Catalog for the exhibition of Navajo weaving that ran through 4 Oct. 1992 in Denver. It will travel to Phoenix, DC, Omaha, and NYC during 1994 and 1995. The show comprises the Gloria F. Ross Collection of Contemporary Navajo Weaving of the Denver Art Museum. Fine color photos of the work with biographical sketches and comments of the weavers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Reflections of the Weaver's World: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of Contemporary Navajo Weaving

Arts & Photography

Hedlund, Ann Lane

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Denver Art Museum

Gloria F. Ross (1923-1998) described her work as the translation of paint into wool. She was deeply committed to reinventing the centuries-old art of tapestry, particularly championing the handmade in contemporary art. This remarkable book, written by textile scholar Ann Lane Hedlund, draws from rare unpublished archives to unravel the evolution of Ross’s modern tapestries and to illuminate the significance of her creative partnerships. 
Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry features the collaborative work of 28 acclaimed modernist painters and sculptors, including Helen Frankenthaler (Ross’s sister), Kenneth Noland, and Louise Nevelson, with several dozen traditional-yet-innovative weavers in France, Scotland, and the Southwestern United States. Brief biographies of the artists, letters, notes, sketches, and photographs illustrate the practical and aesthetic challenges that occupied Gloria Ross for over three decades.

Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry

History & Criticism

Other Distribution

According to the Navajos, the holy people Spider Man and Spider Woman first brought the tools for weaving to the People. Over the centuries Navajo artists have used those tools to weave a web of beauty—a rich tradition that continues to the present day. In testimony to this living art form, this book presents 74 dazzling 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, sandpainting, pictorial, miniature, sampler—and a number of major regional variations, from Ganado to Teec Nos Pos. Textile authority Ann Hedlund provides an introductory narrative about the development of Navajo textile collecting—including the shift of attention from artifacts to art—and a brief review of the history of Navajo weaving. She then comments on the shaping of the particular collection represented in the book, offering a rich source of knowledge and insight for other collectors. Explaining themes in Navajo weaving over the quarter-century represented by the Santa Fe Collection, Hedlund focuses on the development of modern rug designs and the influence on weavers of family, community, artistic identity, and the marketplace. She also introduces each section of plates with a description of the representative style, its significance, and the weavers who perpetuate and deviate from it. In addition to the textile plates, Hedlund’s color photographs show the families, landscapes, livestock, hogans, and looms that surround today’s Navajo weavers. Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century explores many of the important connections that exist today among weavers through their families and neighbors, and the significant role that collectors play in perpetuating this dynamic art form. For all who appreciate American Indian art and culture, this book provides invaluable guidance to the fine points of collecting and a rich visual feast.

Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century: Kin, Community, and Collectors

University of Arizona Press

Exhibition catalogue, St. Louis Art Museum, of 19th century Navajo rugs (and a few Pueblo textiles); introduction by Hedlund on changes in Navajo designs and weaving during the 19th. century..

Navajo Weavings from the Andy Williams Collection

St Louis City Art Museum

Contemporary Navajo Weaving: Thoughts That Count (Plateau, Vol 65, No 1)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Museum of Northern Arizona

From the mid-17th century to the present day, herding sheep, carding wool, spinning yarn, dyeing with native plants, and weaving on iconic upright looms have all been steps in the intricate process of Navajo blanket and rug making in the American Southwest. Beginning in the late 1800s, amateur and professional photographers documented the Diné (Navajo) weavers and their artwork, and the images they captured tell the stories of the artists, their homes, and the materials, techniques, and designs they used. Many postcards illustrate popular interest surrounding weaving as an indigenous art form, even as economic, social, and political realities influenced the craft. These historical pictures illuminate perceived traditional weaving practices. The authors' accompanying narratives deepen the perspective and relate imagery to modern life.

Navajo Weavers of the American Southwest

Hiller, Peter

Sakiestewa, Ramona

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Good resource book for the complete weaver.

Beyond the Loom: Keys to Understanding Early Southwestern Weaving

Wilkins, Teresa

Johnson+books

A passion for Navajo weaving as an art form established the Santa Fe Collection. The aim of the collectors revolved around a fascination with modern Navajo rug styles and how certain weavers could take a relatively standard format and turn it into something "quite extraordinary" through the expert use of color and patterning. The book begins with a general overview of modern Navajo weaving. The woven pieces are then presented by category...Sheep Colors; Plant Colors; Chief's Blankets and Revivals; Teec Nos Pos; Storm Patterns; Scenes from Ceremonies; Pictorials; Miniatures; and Samplers. The seventy pieces presented here include several works by the same weaver and also several collaborations between two weavers. In all, fifty-eight weavers from the Navajo Nation are represented in this collection.

Navajo weaving from the Santa Fe collection, 1971-1996

National Cowboy Hall of Fame

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