Navajo Saddle Blankets: Textiles to Ride in the American West, edited by Lane Coulter SOLD OUT/Please locate another source to purchase

While used for riding or as rugs, saddle blankets are more than just utilitarian pieces.  They are works of art created as double weaves, two-faced weavings,  tufted angoras, and twills and continue to be used by the Navajo and the cowboys of the West as well as collected as art pieces. This book presents a fascinating history of the evolution of the saddle blanket.

Museum of New Mexico Press, 2002
Paperback, 144 pages