Editing Weaving (section)

===Native Americans===
{{main|Navajo weaving}}
[[File:Navajo sheep & weaver.jpg|thumb|upright|Weaving a traditional [[Navajo rug]]]]
Textile weaving, using [[cotton]] dyed with pigments, was a dominant craft among pre-[[European colonization of the Americas|colonization]] tribes of the American southwest, including various [[Pueblo]] peoples, the [[Zuni people|Zuni]], and the [[Ute Tribe|Ute]] tribes. The first Spaniards to visit the region wrote about seeing [[Navajo rug|Navajo blankets]]. With the introduction of [[Navajo-Churro sheep]], the resulting woolen products have become very well known. By the 18th century the Navajo had begun to import yarn with their [[favorite color]], Bayeta red. Using an upright loom, the Navajo wove blankets worn as garments and then rugs after the 1880s for trade. Navajo traded for commercial wool, such as Germantown, imported from Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HISTORY OF NAVAJO RUGS & BLANKETS |url=https://camerontradingpost.com/history-of-navajo-rugs-blankets.html |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=Cameron Trading Post |language=en-US}}</ref> Under the influence of European-American settlers at trading posts, Navajos created new and distinct styles, including "Two Gray Hills" (predominantly black and white, with traditional patterns), "Teec Nos Pos" (colorful, with very extensive patterns), "Ganado" (founded by [[Don Lorenzo Hubbell]]), red dominated patterns with black and white, "Crystal" (founded by J. B. Moore), "Oriental" and [[Persian rug|Persian]] styles (almost always with natural dyes), "Wide Ruins," "Chinlee," banded geometric patterns, "Klagetoh," diamond type patterns, "Red [[Mesa]]" and bold diamond patterns. Many of these patterns exhibit a fourfold symmetry, which is thought to embody traditional ideas about harmony, or ''hózhó''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nez |first=V |date=2018 |title=SA'AH NAAGHÁI BIK'EH HÓZHÓÓN TEACHINGS |url=https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095&context=educ_llss_etds |access-date=January 12, 2024}}</ref>