| Maker | Hispanic artist |
| Date of Creation | c. 1860 |
| Location | Sun Luis Valley, Colorado |
| Materials | Handspun wool |
| Institution | Denver Art Museum |
| Credit Line | Neusteter Textile Collection at the Denver Art Museum: Gift of Charles Winfred Douglas, 1934.11 |
| Accession Number | 1951.47 |
| Photo Credit | Denver Art Museum |
Hispanic settlers made a large impact on Southwest weaving traditions. For example, they introduced weaving with the wool of churro sheep and the use of indigo dye imported from Mexico in the mid-1500s. It would be another century until they developed their own commercial weaving industry in the Rio Grande Valley, which untimatley competed with the Navajo weaving trade. This blanket, referred to as a Rio Grande blanket, was woven on a horizontal treadle loom in weft-faced plain weave, and would have been used for both as a wearing blanket and for bedding.