SWAIA ARTIST Profile

Florence Riggs

Name
Florence Riggs
Tribe
Navajo Nation
Juried Classification(s)
Textiles

SWAIA Booth History

SFIM25
WIM24
SFIM24
FR S 327

2024 Award History

N/A
Portfolio Example & Artist Statement
Florence Riggs

Handwoven with 100% fine (not thick, some vegetal dyed & natural) wool & warp with some hand spun wool made into edge cords. Handmade tools (combs & battens of all sizes) are used by hand with every single stranger of wool put through the warp by hand to the finished of the textile/tapestry Rug.Traditional Navajo horizontal handmade wood looms are the structure that Weavings are made on.

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