Weaving in Beauty

After I’d seen Marilou and Martha Schultz, I quickly checked my program and found that Roy Kady, D.Y. Begay and TahNiiBaa Naataanii were where they usually are, which is behind the museum.  While I was chatting with Roy, Brenda Spencer came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder.  That’s Brenda at the right in the picture above.  She is working at the Arizona Public Service plant in St. John’s Arizona and weaving in her spare time.  It’s great to have her back in Arizona, but I know that her friends in Dallas miss her.

Also in this picture from left are Tyra Richards, Roy Kady’s mother, Mary and Roy.  The skeins of wool behind Roy are millspun Navajo-Churro wool that Roy uses in his work, often custom dyeing them to achieve the colors he wants.  He had won an award for the tack set that you can see behind him.  I also got a picture of Roy with his prize winning set, which you can see below.

Roy will be participating the 8th Annual Dibe’ Nitsaa Sheep and Wool Days in Teec Nos Pos on May 16, 17, and 18.  More on this event later this week.   Roy and his family continue their support and encouragement of the traditional Navajo lifeway and it is good to see his work earning awards.

That’s all for this evening.  Tomorrow morning, I’ll post a picture of Tyra’s rug and we’ll visit with D.Y. Begay

I’m trying out a new picture processing plug-in called PicLens. Once I have things working correctly, you’ll be able to see a full screen slide show of any post with pictures. Since I have some great ones from the Heard Museum Indian Market, I thought that this would be a good time to try it. You’ll need to install a free plug-in for your browser to fully use PicLens. Please let me know if you like this functionality or whether it’s just not worth the trouble.

I usually have to teach on Saturday, so I didn’t get to the show until Sunday morning. There was a line to get in, but it went quickly. I visited with Marilou and Martha Schultz first. Marilou reports that she’s not teaching as many classes this year so that she can finish some projects. She is doing quite a few of what she calls her computer rugs, which have patterning that resembles a circuit board, a very very complex circuit board. Here’s a picture of Marilou with her mother at left. They were both spinning and I wanted to sit down and join in, but if I had, I wouldn’t have gotten to see as many people as I did.

I visited with Roy Kady next and both his mother and niece Tyra were also in the booth. Roy had woven a full set of tack for a horse including a felted saddle pad, saddle cinch, bridle and saddle blanket. We both agreed that any horse blessed with this ensemble would look really good. I will add a better picture in the morning, but you can click on this one, or use the PicLens arrow to launch a full screen image or see a slide show. If you do, you’ll see Tyra, Martha and Marilou and Sallie Parker. I’ll be writing more tomorrow! In the meantime please try the PicLens slide show if you have a chance.