Foreword to first edition / Yvonne Lange
Introduction / Teresa Archuleta-Sagel
The Setting: A Brief history of Spanish textile production in the southwest / Dorothy Boyd Bowen.
Efectos del país: a history of weaving along the Rio Grande / Ward Alan Minge
Spanish-Americans, their servants and sheep: a culture history of weaving in Southern Colorado / Marianne L. Stoller.
The Textiles: Introductory remarks / Dorothy Boyd Bowen
Bands and stripes / Trish Spillman
Saltillo sarapes of Mexico / Joe Ben Wheat
Bands and stripes with Saltillo design elements / Dorothy Boyd Bowen.
Saltillo design systems / Dorothy Boyd Bowen
Vallero blankets / Nora Fisher
Weft Ikat blankets / Nora Fisher
Handspun cotton blankets / Dorothy Boyd Bowen
Colcha embroidery / Nora Fisher
Textile production in twentieth-century New Mexico / Charlene Cerny and Christine Mather
Appendices: The Treadle loom / Nora Fisher.
The Materials of Southwestern weaving / Nora Fisher and Joe Ben Wheat
Fabric structure / Nora Fisher
Natural and synthetic dyes / Dorothy Boyd Bowen and Trish Spillman
The Dye analysis / Max Saltzman.