← Back to Navajo Child's Blankets
#1 Classic Navajo Child's BlanketSOLD
Navajo Child's Blankets- ARTIST
- Navajo Child's Blankets
- YEAR
- 1850
- MEDIUM
- Navajo Weaving
- DIMENSIONS
- 48 x 30
- STATUS
- Sold
A tour-de-force of Navajo weaving. This powerful and explosive visual statement precedes the typical child’s blanket layouts produced during the heyday of child’s blanket production, 1860-1870. The center dominates and the ends recede, more in the manner of an early Classic Period Navajo man’s serape. Woven on a background of lac-dyed bayeta with early serape design elements, this monumental example suggests that it was an early version of the Navajo child’s blanket. Compare it to the cover piece on the 1972 Kahlenberg/Berlant catalog “The Navajo Blanket.” The blanket measures 48” x 30” and is woven of lac-dyed bayeta, indigo blue and handspun white.