How To Weave A Navajo Rug On A Loom

Good illustrations and a good list of materials needed.

How to weave a navajo rug on a loom.

The warp itself is prepared off the loom and then placed onto the loom. This book provides step by step instructions to weave full size and miniature navajo style rugs. Her first navajo rug a small memento for a sacramento traveler became the cornerstone of a fantastic collection mostly handmade by greaves. The looms are available in different sizes depending on what size rug that you want to weave.

Navajo looms are used for weaving rugs or other flat items. The best thing about the book was the instructions on building a navajo loom. This is the updated 2020 edition with new pictures and updated text. Navajo weaving has a style of its own and it is truly an organic craft.

Weaving the navajo way is probably the most complete how to book on navajo weaving available today. You can use a navajo loom to make a variety of home decor projects. A rug may take many weeks or months to weave depending on its size. The looms are usually portable and can be readily moved.

You will then be ready to weave in a traditional navajo style. The navajo may have learned to weave from their pueblo indian neighbors when they moved into the four corners region during the year 1000 a d. The navajo obtained cotton through local trade routes before the arrival of the spanish after which time they began to use wool. They could remove the a weaving in progress from a loom and travel to a new place where they would build another loom and place the weaving in progress on it.

Not a bad book but pretty old. Would have enjoyed seeing some actual photographs of the finished loom and throughout the book regarding how to weave. Some experts contend that the navajo were not weavers until after the 17th century. Making a navajo loom involves a quick trip to the hardware store and a few simple construction steps.

Rugs and blankets woven in the navajo tradition. The rug is woven by passing the weft over and under the warp threads and beating it down securely with a wooden comb. Weaving the navajo way how to create rugs miniatures and more. Heddles attached to every other thread open a shed to pass the weft through.

The point was to be sturdy.