Spring Weaving in Beauty Class: Natural Dyes the Navajo Way

Window Rock, AZ Today, we spent the morning with Rose Dedman.   Rose’s late mother was a proficient Navajo dye artist and Rose is carrying on her traditional dyeing methods.  We went to the Defiance Plateau and picked fragrant spring sage, ground lichen, and rabbitbrush.    Rose had been saving Navajo tea and black walnuts, giving us…

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