Monday, July 1, 2013

Navajo Chief's Blankets

I'm not a very prolific weaver.  I think I get about one of these miniatures done a year between all the other little projects I have going on at once.  I am weaving a series of three miniature Navajo Chief's Blankets.  Below are the first two.  The blue one is the First Phase blanket.  The one on the left is the second phase.  They are only about 12 inches by 15 inches.  I can see that my tension and selvages are getting better.  I have now started working on the third phase replica.
When I finish them I will either frame them to hang on the wall or turn them into pillows.
I enjoy the slow process of this kind of weaving.  It is very therapeutic.  I imagine how wonderfully effective and simplistic this kind of weaving is.  When it is finished, it is complete.  There are no knots to tie, edges to hem or ends to be woven in.  And it is very transportable.  The weaving could be cut from a frame and the entire thing rolled up for transport and then rehung from a tree at a new destination.  It is marvelous.