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	<title>Weaving in Beauty &#187; It&#8217;s All About the Rugs</title>
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		<title>The Dye Plants of Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 04:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ground lichen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yarn dyed with copper solution, sage, wild carrot, ground lichen, walnut hulls and rabbitbrush dries on the fence in Ft. Defiance. 
Window Rock, AZ Today, Rose and Henry Lee Dedman helped us to dye some wool in the Navajo way, over an open fire.  We collected ground lichen, sage and rabbitbrush on the Defiance Plateau [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Water at Canyon de Chelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 04:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tour vehicles head into Canyon de Chelly.
Window Rock, AZ A very deep and welcome snow pack in the Chuska Mountains has led to historically high water in Canyon de Chelly, about 67 miles from Window Rock.  The canyon was even closed to tours during late April, but the waters have receded enough in the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Natural Color Palette at Toadlena and Two Grey Hills</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 04:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daisy Taugelchee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This 1920&#39;s vintage Ye&#39;i is at the Toadlena Trading Post.  
Window Rock, AZ Today we went to the Two Grey Hills area, about 70 miles northeast of Window Rock.  We took a spectacularly beautiful route along Indian Route 12 and crossed Narbona Pass on New Mexico route 134, stopping to visit the abandoned Crystal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping My Resolutions: Attend The Crownpoint Rug Auction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It's All About the Rugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crownpoint Rug Auction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilbert Begay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lena Tahe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Whitehair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Muskett]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rena Robertson holds the latest in her Faces series of weavings.  Here&#39;s she&#39;s done a Faces variation of the Storm Pattern
Another Rena Robertson Faces rug.
Tempe, AZ One of my New Year&#8217;s resolutions is to attend the Crownpoint Rug Auction every month if at all possible.  So far, I&#8217;ve been able to make the trip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heard Museum Indian Market Starts with Scottsdale ArtWalk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jackson Clarke II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marie H. Yazzie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Winter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marie H. Yazzie (left) and her daughter Marilyn demonstrate weaving and spinning at the Scottsdale ArtWalk
Scottsdale, AZ The busy Heard Museum Indian Market weekend kicked off on Thursday, March 4, with the weekly ArtWalk giving special attention to the many Native American artists and craftsman who were in the Phoenix area for this large annual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some News from Morris Muskett (And He&#8217;s Having a Jewelry Sale)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
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Morris Muskett at left with printmaker/sculptor Melanie Yazzie (center) and exhibit developer Judy Newland (right0 at an early University of Colorado event as part of the Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams and Landscapes exhibit.  

Tempe, AZ Weaver and silversmith Morris Muskett is having a 20% off sale on his jewelry at http://www.morrismuskett.com, but you&#8217;ll need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Germantown Contemporary: The Navajo Wedge Weave</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connie Lippert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Convergence 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John C. Hill Antique Indian Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharie Monsam (left) and Lou Murphy (right) hold an 1880&#39;s wedge weave at John C. Hill Antique Indian Art in Scottsdale, AZ
Tempe, AZ During the 1870&#8242;s, Navajo weavers developed a new way of achieving the lightning bolt designs of their famous eye dazzlers.  Called a wedge weave, the technique involves weaving diagonal stripes which distort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Online Weaving in Beauty Classes in Navajo Techniques</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sampler weavings produced by Weaving in Beauty students
Tempe, AZ Over the past 12 years, Jennie Slick and I have taught over 300 people how to weave the Navajo way, but not everyone who is interested can make the trip to the Southwest or get into one the workshops that we do on the road.   Starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brilliance of the Navajo Germantowns: Late Classic Weaving and Bayeta</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bayeta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Late Classic Period Navajo Weaving]]></category>
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A  detail of a Late Classic raveled bayeta blanket at Turkey Mountain Traders in Scottsdale, AZ.  


Tempe, AZ Navajo Germantowns were woven during two overlapping periods identified as the Late Classic (1865-1880) and Transitional (1868-1895).   Both periods are marked by increasing use of commercial materials and adaptation of designs from Rio Grande, Saltillo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brilliance of the Navajo Germantowns: Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An 1880&#39;s Germantown at the River Trading Post in Scottsdale, AZ.
Tempe, AZ I didn&#8217;t say which Sunday I would do the next installment on the Germantowns did I?  This time of year offers more than it&#8217;s fair share of distractions and writing articles fell by the wayside somewhere between the recipe box and the post [...]]]></description>
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