Navajo weavings can bring thousands at auction, but the tribe's textile tradition is about far more than earning money. It's about preserving and transferring culture across generations.

Navajo weavings can bring thousands at auction, but the tribe's textile tradition is about far more than earning money. It's about preserving and transferring culture across generations.

The first thing to catch the eyes of visitors to the fourth rotation of “The Way of Beauty: Diné Woven Stories” exhibition are the colors.

Navajo weavings can bring thousands at auction, but the tribe's textile tradition is about far more than earning money. It's about preserving and transferring culture across generations.

Navajo weavings can bring thousands at auction, but the tribe's textile tradition is about far more than earning money. It's about preserving and transferring culture across generations.

For centuries, the lives of Navajo people have been intertwined with livestock - specifically, one particular breed of sheep they've relied on for meat and wool. The tribe is well known for weaving ...

Prior to the Navajo's production of goods for sale, they made items for their own use. Blanket-weight weavings were used as ...

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The Navajo weaving workshop is set to return in the spring, though exact dates have not yet been announced. For now, ...

Weaving a world : textiles and the Navajo way of seeing / Roseann Sandoval Willink and Paul G. Zolbrod ; photographs by John Vavruska Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details Author Willink, ...