Navajo Insert Jacket - M sesami-service Hand-pieced in the quiet hours

Hand-pieced in the quiet hours of rural Japan

entirely thread

and made to carry the fabric

is entirely incidental

hand-stitched repairs

Navajo Insert Jacket - M sesami-service Hand-pieced in the quiet hoursOne of one c. 19001950 Southwest, United States Provenance Cut from a 20th century Navajo rug, woven somewhere across the vast territory of the American Southwest. Navajo weaving is among the most technically demanding textile traditions in the world passed from mother to daughter, the patterns carried in memory rather than written down. The rug was made to be walked on, lived with, used. That the weave is still this tight, the color still this