As America honors Native American Heritage Month in November, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announces that it has received a rare Navajo First Phase Chief’s Blanket from the late .
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New textiles exhibitions opens at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
For anyone who has ever made their own weaving or quilt, loves the history and tradition that these historic objects represent or simply appreciates hand-made textiles, The Art of the Quilter and Navajo Weavings: Adapting Tradition are must-see exhibitions.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA
.- Visitors to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, one of the two expanded Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, will experience two new textile exhibitions: The Art of the Quilter opened on July 3 in the Foster and Muriel McCarl Gallery and Navajo Weavings: Adapting Tradition will open in the Mary B. and William Lehman Guyton Gallery in early August. These exhibitions are certain to be popular with museum goers as exhibitions displaying Colonial Williamsburgs renowned quilt collection have always been favorites of Art Museums guests, and Navajo Weavings: Tradition and Trade, the first exhibition at