Tag Archives: designs

  Every woman wants to be fashionable. It’s very, very good! With great pleasure we suggests, what is fashiontable.   Colors Fashionable are both strong, decisive colorsand delicate. Fair colors rejuvenate, make fresh. Dark colors are serious.      Patterns Flowers, strips, grating etc. is very popular in clothes. These …

  The architects of the past century were mostly Cree; the artifact shown here demonstrates their accuracy in rendering and the elaborateness of the ornamental designs.

  Gathered during the 1830s by itinerant painter George Catlin, this marvelous leather garment presents designs of different periods and various decorative techniques. Besides the painted patters on the edges and on the porcupine spines woven atop the sleeve, a band of pony beads on the front and back employs …

  Around 1890 in the Southwest, the so-called German thread was imported in order to improve the quality of the Navajo wool used in weaving. It is distinguished in the zig-zag pattern of this blanket, observing the thick fringe. The bright red background is used as the base for the …

  These Chitimacha baskets have all the typical Southwestern elements: diagonal workmanship, double weave, square base, rounded sides, removable lids. The curvilinear designs and the colour strips are clearly Chimitacha.