Native American Kilt.

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* I took that out because it had too much off topic babbeling and personal infromation. *

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Yeah, I know, old thread, but the topic of Puebloan kilts came up in another on-line world I lurk. So that what I wrote in that other world would have some grounding in reality, I came looking for pictures because I remember having seen them on XMTS.

They're gone! Riverkilt, where did all of your Hopi dance pictures go? Looking at the source data of your posts I can find the URLs of the pictures but all I get when I use image address is a 403 forbidden error.

I have always been facinated by the art of western Native Americans - not a slight to eastern Native Americans but I live in the west so have been exposed to the art of the western peoples. So over the years when I've had the money to do it; I've collected rugs and sculpture from the Diné; and pottery, fetishes, Katchinas, and the like from the Puebloans.

I don't think that traditional weaving technique lends itself to kilts as we generally think of them, but I think that the colors and certainly some of the designs would lend themselves well to non-traditional - non-tartan - kilts. Perhaps when I get my loom restored that will be something worth looking into. I'm thinking that a Chiefs Blanket pattern would make a stunning kilt.