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A woven design with a maker's rules.
Also known as: Dine weaving design, Navajo rug pattern
The Diné weaving conventions of banded, terraced and diamond designs.
Structure Diné weaving in banded, terraced and central-diamond arrangements.
Contexts: History, Public information
The stepped diagonal is a consequence of the loom: a smooth diagonal cannot be woven in a tapestry weave, so the characteristic terracing follows from the technique rather than from a decorative choice.
Contexts: History, Public information
Regional styles are named after the trading posts that encouraged them, so several pattern names record twentieth-century commerce rather than older tradition.
Contexts: History, Public information
Terraced and diamond figures built from stepped diagonal edges, arranged in bands or radiating from a centre, worked in natural and dyed wool.