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Textiles to Ride in the American West
Lane Coulter, PhD
ISBN: 9780890134078
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Museum of New Mexico Press
Edition: illustrated edition
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Navajo saddle blankets are among the most under appreciated art forms in the American Southwest, the Cinderella of Navajo textiles. Both maker and user generally have seen them as utilitarian objects to be worn out and discarded. As a result, we do not adequately appreciate them as an art form within the Navajo weaving tradition. By the same token, we tend to ignore designs and weaving techniques that are particular to saddle blankets, for this is the area where double weaves, the two…
Navajo saddle blankets are among the most under-appreciated art forms in the American Southwest, the Cinderella of Navajo textiles. Saddle blankets have played a key role in Navajo life both as utilitarian objects and as a force in the economic sustainability of modern Navajo life. They represent a material link between Navajo weavers and traders. This modest textile has found a context in the cattle industry, inside rural cabins, on the floors of eastern bungalows, on the walls of art museums, and even on horseback. It has served countless cultural and utilitarian demands placed on it over the last century and a half, with no sunset in sight.
| ISBN | 0890134073 | | Pages | 144 | | ISBN13 | 9780890134078
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Museum of New Mexico Press | | Weight (grammes) | 736 | | Imprint | Museum of New Mexico Press | | Published in | New Mexico | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 280 | | Publication date | 01 Dec 2002 | | Width (mm) | 225 | | Library of Congress | 2002069637 | | Spine width (mm) | 11 | | DEWEY | 746.089972 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Foreword by Duane Anderson | | 7 | | | | Preface by Pearl Sunrise | | 9 | | | | Acknowledgments | | 13 | | | | Introduction by Lane Coulter | | 15 | | 1 | | First Contact by Bruce Shackleford | | 25 | | 2 | | Early Navajo Weaving: 1650-1868 and Beyond by Lane Coulter | | 31 | | 3 | | Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Transitional Fulcrum, 1868-1910 by Susan Brown McGreevy | | 41 | | 4 | | Twentieth-Century Saddle Blankets by Marian E. Rodee | | 63 | | 5 | | Saddle Blanket Analysis by Casey Reed | | 93 | | 6 | | The Cowboy Market for Navajo Saddle Blankets by B. Byron Price | | 103 | | 7 | | Weaving Processes and Techniques by Joyce Begay-Foss | | 119 | | | | Epilogue by Lane Coulter | | 136 | | | | Index | | 137 |
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