A Turning Point: Viewing Navajo Weaving as Art. American Indian Art 36(2) A Turning Point: Viewing Navajo Weaving as Art. American Indian Art 36(2)

Acknowledging the elements that cumulatively signal a shift toward the recognition of Navajo weaving as a bona fide art form, this article raises a number of questions: By what means is art...

Article Ann Lane Hedlund
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Adventures in Modern Tapestry: Gloria Ross, Kenneth Noland and Native American Weavers. American Indian Art 37(1) Adventures in Modern Tapestry: Gloria Ross, Kenneth Noland and Native American Weavers. American Indian Art 37(1)

In 1979 a New York woman began worthing with Native American weavers, asking them to create tapestries based on a famous East Coast painter's geometric imagery. Over the next twenty years, nineteen...

Article Ann Lane Hedlund
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Arizona State Museum’s Textiles and the ‘Southwest – Northwest’ Continuum American Indian Art 30(1) Arizona State Museum’s Textiles and the ‘Southwest – Northwest’ Continuum American Indian Art 30(1)

Arizona State Museum considers the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico one culture area, known from a United States perspective as the Greater Southwest. Studying the material culture - including the textile...

Article Ann Lane Hedlund and Diane Dittemore
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Beyond Beauty: Exploring the Ethnoaesthetics of Navajo Weaving. American Indian Art 40(3) Beyond Beauty: Exploring the Ethnoaesthetics of Navajo Weaving. American Indian Art 40(3)

When Navajo cultural specialists emphasize hózho, as an aspect of the Diné worldview, they focus on inner beauty, the essence of beauty, the process of beauty. Following this sophisticated approach, many contemporary Native...

Article Ann Lane Hedlund
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Gujarati Warp Ikat Resist Method: A Practitioner’s Record and Translation into Cloth Gujarati Warp Ikat Resist Method: A Practitioner’s Record and Translation into Cloth
In 2009, a Fulbright senior research award enabled me to document warp resist binding in the village of Somasar,
in the Surendranagar region of Gujarat, India. Master Weaver Vaghela Vitthalbhai allowed me...
Article Wendy Weiss
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The Refining of a Domestic Art: Surayia Rahman The Refining of a Domestic Art: Surayia Rahman

An overview of Bengali kantha embroidery and the role of Surayia Rahman and others in this art's revival and transformation.

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/886/

Article Cathy Stevulak and Niaz Zaman
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Various magazine articles Various magazine articles

Many articles on palm, reed and maguey baskets, hats, mats and bags for Revue magazine and Strands See my website. http://www.kathrynrousso.com/

Article Kathryn Rousso
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