Weaving in Beauty

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Weavings for Sale

                               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.




Rug Description
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Cochineal Dyed Ganado Red Mini Bag by Gilbert Begay

Price: $150

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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

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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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  1. 1 On November 23rd, 2009, Paula said:

    The Gilbert Begay bag arrived today!!!!! I love it!
    It is really beautiful. I was surprised to find it has a zipper closure which is really great and I loved finding those random mohair fibres sneaking out of the black wool.
    Do you know what kind of yarn Gilbert used? Also did he make that fabulous vest he is wearing in the photo? Hope he will bring that when he visits our class as I would love to have a close up look at that.
    Years ago my Mom and Dad went on a trip west and when they came home my father had bought me this cute multistone pin of a little roadrunner. So I am going to put him on the bag. Beep Beep!
    Thanks for putting the bag on the mercantile page so I could purchase it.
    Cheers,

  2. 2 On December 25th, 2009, Paula said:

    Hi Mary,
    My daughter opened the package today with the Emily Malone bag. She loves it. Wanted to know what warp and weft meant after reading the detailed description. Maybe we have a potential weaver on our hands!! Hope springs eternal for a weaving mother.
    All the best to you and your readers in 2010!

  3. 3 On February 14th, 2010, Barbara Angelica Crowe said:

    Hi Mary: on the web page of WIB I cannot see the full pictures and have had trouble with the video for class. The columns on the page cover the video. It is the third column that I cannot move nor move what is underneath.

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