Flashy Banded Weaving Without Fringe
Chimayo
- Marked Down $45.00
- Gallery Price $135.00
- Title
- Flashy Banded Weaving Without Fringe
- Artist
- Chimayo
- Medium
- Commercially dyed wool
- Size
- 74 1/4" height X 34" width
- Date of creation
- Circa 1970's
- Condition
- Fair. Intermittent moth damage, slight degree of overall soiling, red dye migration in central diamond. Ends are basted with cotton thread.
- Provenance
- A Phoenix resident, now deceased, populated her residence with all kinds of special items from the Southwest KE.
- About The Flashy Banded Weaving Without Fringe
This banded design is punctuated with dashes residing in the red bands and measuring 2 1/2" in length. The central design motif is generous in its scale, hosting vibrant colors.
Marked Down from $85 to $45
- About Chimayo
Chimayo weaving evolved from a Rio Grande Hispanic weaving tradition identified in the middle 19th century when New Mexico was annexed to the United States by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. A rise in tourism in the Southwest prompted the Hispanic weavers to create a woven product to satisfy tourists and mail-order customers.
A village named Chimayo became the center of weaving activity. Intially new commercial yarns from the eastern United States were supplied by the curio dealers within a cottage industry framework. Some of these products were referred to as "Chimallo Indian Weaving", suggesting an Indian flavor to the design repetoire.
Two excellent books delving into Chimayo weaving are: Chimayo Weaving The Transformation of a Tradition and The Centinela Weavers of Chimayo Unfolding Tradition.
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