DepartmentTextiles-Hispano

Blanket

NameBlanket

Artist Artist not recorded

Dateca 1850

Place madeNorthern Rio Grande, New Mexico, United States, North America

MediumWool

DimensionsOverall: 57 1/2 in. (146 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Fred Harvey Collection, Museum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection

Object numberFA.1979.64.102

Collections

Rio Grande Textiles

DescriptionWeft-faced tapestry weave, woven double. Warp: 2-ply handspun wool; weft: 1-ply handspun wool, natural-undyed and natural-dyed red-brown which may be a red wool dye (UCLA D-34-60), narrow stripes of white, natural yellow, green, and blue.The red-brown is exceptionally bright. N.Fisher