Venancio Aragon Navajo Weaving

Diné weaver Venancio Aragon is driven to revive and preserve Diné weaving amid modern challenges and cultural appropriation.

Venancio is a Navajo textile weaver that combines the ancient techniques of his  ancestors with polychromatic design. He specializes in rare and uncommon techniques including various twills, two-faced, tufting and hybrids. His signature development is the Expanded Rainbow Aesthetic. Argon's weaving utilizes over 250 colors of both synthetically and naturally dyed wool yarns. The textiles are experimental and often deal with the subject of water and meteorological phenomenon.