Navajo Insert Jacket - M sesami-service hand-stitched repairs

hand-stitched repairs

The stripe — woven in

is entirely incidental

Made in a time of resourceful practice

Nothing else to figure out

Navajo Insert Jacket - M sesami-service hand-stitched repairsOne of one c. 19001950 Southwest, United States Provenance Cut from a 20th century Navajo rug, woven somewhere across the vast territory of the American Southwest. Navajo weaving is among the most technically demanding textile traditions in the world passed from mother to daughter, the patterns carried in memory rather than written down. The rug was made to be walked on, lived with, used. That the weave is still this tight, the color still this