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Two Chimayo Woven Textiles

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:30.00 USD Estimated At:40.00 - 50.00 USD
Two Chimayo Woven Textiles
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Two Chimayo Woven Textiles. One piece, a table runner, is approx. 59''L x 19''W. Tha second piece, a rug, is approx. 42''L x 27''W. When the Spanish settled in the Southwest almost every settlement had its weavers in the early days of their occupation of what is now United States territory. Here and there the art declined and finally disappeared. A few Families in some settlements preserved their looms and continued to use them. One settlement, Chimayo, however, kept up its weaving, and has so persistently continued in its practice that ChimayO blankets have become known all over the civilized world, and its older and better types are highly prized by collectors. The Mexican settlements known as ChimayO are about thirty miles north of Santa Fé and ten or twelve miles from Española. These two wonderful and vividly colored examples show the diversity of this weaving style.