While this pattern is usually called a 'tree of life' it is actually based upon a sandpainting motif from the BlessingWay ceremony.   Wenora Joe of Cornfields, Arizona wove it.   36 by 51 inches.   $1200.

An an unusual application of the raised outline weaving technique, applied to a corn motif.   I found it very visually appealing.   Measuring 26 by 38.5 inches, it was woven by Bessie Begay.   $525  

This pattern, which developed in the early 1900s, is called a Pine Tree Ganado.   29 by 47 inches, it was woven by Nellie Kade.   $900.

A nice older geometric pattern of all natural colors of wool.   Probably woven in the 1940s, it came out of an estate in Tucson.   It measures 60 by 37 inches.   There is some damage to the selvage cords.   $975.

Barbara Teller Ornelas and her sister weave the finest tapestries period.   A list of their awards and honors and recognitions would fill this page.   We are so fortunate to have just acquired one of Barbara's tour-de-force textiles.   This tapestry, based upon a First Phase Chief's blanket pattern measures just under 15 by 20 inches.   There are 14 warp thread per inch.   As for the number of weft threads per inch....I used my optivisors with the drop down magnifier and I still had trouble counting them.   I will absolutely guarantee that there are at least 90 weft threads per inch; and it could be just over 100.   Incredible work from a lovely weaver who loves her work, for whom weaving is not a job, but part of her life.
The colors on this textile were almost impossible for me to render accurately in a larger image, so I have include a close-up (inset) that is more faithful to the deep black and the rich-midnight-sky-blue-verging-into-a-hint-of-purple.   The fine red lines bordering the white are almost like dawn breaking through the blanket of the night's thunderstorm.   $2500.

This Moqui stripe Chief's blanket, 33 by 58 inches, is woven of hand-dyed and natural color churro wool by Marissa Jones.   The term Moqui is the original Spanish designation for the Hopi.   The weaving tradition there was held by the men, who wove striped blankets, often of indigo blue and natural dark brown wool.   $1100.

One of the Chantways or healing ceremonies of the Navajo was the Big Star Chant, used to heal those who had been victims of witchcraft.   In one part of the ceremony the patient is seated upon a sandpainting of a white star or thligaii so.   Woven of hand-dyed and natural color churro wool by Marissa Jones.   29 by 53 inches.   $975.

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