On this page you’ll find some of the rugs and weavings that we have for sale right now. We have the opportunity and privilege of buying these pieces directly or nearly so from the weavers and in general we pay them what they ask for their work. We add 20% to the price paid to the weaver cover our costs.
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Cochineal Dyed Ganado Red Mini Bag by Gilbert Begay Price: $150 (Click on any picture for a larger image) Warps per inch: 9 Wefts per inch: 40 Weft yarn: Brown Sheep Commercial Wool Warp yarn: Brown Sheep Commercial Wool Here’s another of Gilbert Begay’s popular bags, this one dyed with cochineal red that has a beautiful aubrash effect (be sure to click on one of the pictures to see it). Gilbert is pictured below with Liz Munk and two more of his bags. Gilbert is a master weaver from Crownpoint, New Mexico. The bag has a detailed and beautilfuly woven pattern and is 6 1/2″ wide and 7″ long. It has a hand braided strap that is 21″ long. The hand twisted fringe is 2″ long and the bag has a zippered closure. As the warp/weft counts reflect, this is a very tightly woven bag. You can further personalize your bag with pins and beads for a truly one of a kind treasure.
This bag has been sold, but I have contacted Gilbert about weaving some others. Please contact me to reserve one. |
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First Spider Rock Design Mini-bag by Emily Malone Price: $250 (Click on any picture for a larger image) Warps per inch: 8 Wefts per inch: 30 Weft yarn: Burnham’s Trading Post Yarn Size #1 Warp yarn: Brown Sheep Commercial Wool Width: 7″ Length: 7″ Strap length: 20″ This bag is the absolutely first mini-bag done in this design and will be accompanied by a certificate to establish this provenance. The Spider Rock pattern was developed about 15 years ago by Emily’s niece, Harriet Whitney and her daughter Lavera Blake. The girls were about 12 years old and were staying at their grandmother’s hogan at the base of Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly. They told Grandma that they wanted to learn to weave so Emily’s mother, Rose Yazzie, set up looms for the girls and told them they could use her leftover yarns from her Burntwater weavings and she told them that could also use all of the black yarn that they wanted. The largest of the “balls” of the leftover colors were about 1/4″ in diameter, so the girls decided to make the background with bars of color and use the black for the pattern. Trader Bruce Burnham loved the results and the family has been weaving the Spider Rock design ever since. Inspired by Gilbert Begay’s bags, Emily decided to try a bag in the design and the results are charming. The bag carries Emily’s feather hallmark. She decorated the bag with a pin and you can add other pins to further embellish it. The bag has a zippered closure to secure the contents. That’s Emily on the right with her daughter Alyssa and her mother, Rose in the picture below. I know that the price on this piece is a bit high, but I bid the item up at an auction so that Emily would get a better return on this first of it’s kind piece. Our normal mark-up of 20% has been maintained for this item. 
This bag has been sold. |
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