“Shaped by the Loom brings into dialogue multiple aspects of process, including the tangible and the intangible, the visual and the tacit. It strives to de-formalize Navajo weaving in order to shift analysis away from the development of periods, designs, and styles toward an alternative framework—one that emphasizes Native agency and experience in the history of textile production. As a result, we re-center weaving as a cultural practice, a mode of engagement with the natural world, and a system of Indigenous knowledge production and transmission, in addition to acknowledging its predominantly non-Native economic and institutional history.”