subtextile

Updated: August 13, 2026

The doorway or rather entrance to the rude hovel of a Navajo Indian is closed by a blanket of native make, unsurpassed in execution and exhibiting conventional designs of a high order. Portion of a tapa stamp, showing its subtextile character.

William Henry Holmes - A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament: Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages: 189-252)