Colonial blanket. National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Smithsonian Institution, 19th century.
Update, 2024: American Indian Magazine describes this is a Salish blanket from ca 1860, woven with goat and sheep wool.
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Kindergarten Paper Weavings from circa 1900 (Collection Jim Linderman).
West African textiles from the 19th Century (Karun Collection)
Africa Cotton Ashanti weavings, from the Karun Collection.
Quilts by Meg Callahan
Norman Brosterman, Kindergarten Collection.
From the exhibition Inventing Kindergarten at the Williamson Gallery of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, (2007)
Oh no, more gabber! Following up the previous post, here is more Gabbeh carpets by Behruz Studio. You can see how Gabbeh shares a lot with textmode, compared to other Persian carpet styles that are more like pixel-based pattern art.
Gabbeh carpets made by Behruz Studio. This is an old persian carpet style that is similar to textmode in many ways. It has not-so-precise patterns and a small number of knots per square centimeter. They can be produced rather quickly and cheap. In fact, the word Gabbeh means raw, natural and uncut.
It uses few colours, which are usually quite bright. Shapes are usually rectangular. There can be large fields of the same colour, but they variegated (ie, the colour varies throughout the carpet).