7 years of work and only come to find out that the Grand Gulch Blanket, the textile studied by Kate Peck Kent herself was cut in half in 1909. I noticed the dimension in the descriptions did not match the original Wetherill notes. Kent studied only one half While I was studying the other half with the work of the Maxwell museum. This iteration is not an exact copy of the original pattern. The color are also changed to distinguish my work from the work of others and the weavers once known. There are many fragments of this technique and several different ways to achieve the weave with different counts that it can only mean it had great significance when it was woven. Since little attention was given to the back side and knots and strands openly stuck out I believe this is a architectural textile. Banners for community spaces that were quickly woven in mass and the weavers moved on to next commission. By the end of the 1300s there was no such luxury as Twill tapestries were replaced with embroidery, resist and applied dyes. Petro glyphs and Kiva depictions suggest the techniques were still practiced by Navajo and Rio Grande pueblos by the 1600s. and then by the 1800s the techniques survived only in Navajo Horse cinches and cradleboard straps as extant examples survive along with photographs.

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