Desert Night Cotton Blend Blanket (King Size)
This cotton/acrylic blend blanket is completely machine-washable! The burnt orange of sun-warmed sandstone fades into dark gray as night rises in the desert. The deep hues of the plant life at night appear black in the moonlight, and the white stripe of the Milky Way shines overhead. “I see the desert at night in this palate,” says Acoma Pueblo artist Michelle Lowden of the specific colors used in her gorgeous Desert Night Cotton Blend Blanket. “There’s no electricity on the mesa, which means the night sky is full of stars. You see the desert colors washed by moon- and starlight.” In this modern iteration of millennia-old designs, Michelle pays homage to the Pueblo pottery of her ancestors in the geometric patterns on our Native-designed blanket. “Many of the patterns here are from our pottery,” shares Michelle. “The three curved feathers are a classic eagle feather design; my maternal grandfather is Eagle Clan. The small triangles are deer tracks, while the bands show the mountains o