Sarape with Compound Banded Design
Navajo (Diné) (Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, United States)
1870–95
- Medium
- Natural and Germantown wool, plain weave and single interlocking tapestry weave; twined warp ends and selvages; looped and knotted augmented corner tassels; natural and synthetic dyes
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 186.7 × 137.8 cm (73 1/2 × 54 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Bequest of Alan R. Brodie
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Some Navajo blankets carry what fifth-generation Navajo weavers Barbara Teller Pete and Lynda Teller Ornelas call a “memory”—a tendency to fold along creases formed by previous wear. When this sarape is displayed according to its memory, as if draped around a person’s shoulders, its striped and checkered lines form a new pattern.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
