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Navajo Classic Child's Blanket
The most interesting design element of a classic child’s blanket is the center pattern, which runs along the spine when the blanket is worn traditional style. The red in this blanket is ravelled bayeta, dyed with a combination of lac and cochineal; the pink is the same bayeta recarded and respun with undyed white churro yarn.
Elizabeth V. Warren and Stacy C. Hollander, "Navajo Classic Child’s Blanket," Expressions of a New Spirit: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 1989), 162
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