GALLERY

Shiprock does it again! We are mixing Navajo textiles with modern furnishings and featuring twill saddle blankets, the most notoriously difficult of all weavings to create. Twill techniques were used in the Classic Era for wearing blankets, then used for utilitarian weavings such as saddle blankets as the 20th Century began. The loom is the most difficult to work with and the warps can easily get confused. The twill weave has a thicker loft because the textile is weft-faced but the wefts pass over more than one warp at a time and are staggered, giving the appearance of a diagonal weave. It is this thickness that gave historic twill weavings functionality, though their subtle elegant patterns are worthy of being art showpieces.
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