Navajo weavers
Navajo Weavers, a Bureau of Ethnology report by Washington Matthews published in Washington by the Government Printing Office in 1885, documenting Navajo textile making for an official American scientific readership. The pictures show woven blankets with striped and diamond patterns in grey, cream and brown, plus a weaver at an upright loom beating down the weft with a batten, giving designers examples of geometric banding, zigzag motifs and tasseled textile edges.
