Discover our Local Museum Trip Update

Our latest trip of the Discover our Local Museums series went to Telluride Historical Museum.  It rained pretty much the whole time but that didn’t dampen the spirits of our group of eighteen.

The highlight of the trip was, of course, the Telluride Blanket.  The blanket is approximately 800 years old and the most beautiful example of Anazazi weaving in existence.  In her book Prehistoric Textiles of the Southwest, Kate Peck Kent describes the Telluride Blanket’s colors as alternating bands of “brick red, blackish-brown, and natural white.” She explains that the blanket is “a striped design characteristic of Anasazi PIII cotton fabrics. It is not found archaeologically in non-Anasazi sites; therefore, the style has been called Anasazi twill.” ”

The group was also treated to a meeting with Fred Blackburn, one of the key archeologosts responsible for identifying the Telluride Blanket and keeping it in Telluride.