Archive for 2008
Change in Web Site Design
After 10 years with the same format, I’ve changed the web site design to integrate the Weaving News blog with the home page and I’ve streamlined the navigation links. Everything is still here, but the blog should be easier to access and comment on, and things should be easier to find. Please let me know…
Read MoreHeard Museum Indian Market Part III
D.Y. Begay has been busy designing a mural for the wall of the Heard Museum. You can see a picture of it at the lower left of the photograph above. The prize winning piece that she’s standing next to goes back to some of her earlier work in dimension and combines an a spare…
Read MoreHeard Museum Indian Market Part II-Roy Kady and Family, Brenda Spencer
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…
Read More2008 Heard Museum Indian Market-Part I
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.…
Read MoreSouthwest Indian Fair Continued: Visiting with The Spider Rock Girls and Isabel Deschinny
Isabel Deschinny’s mother, Mabel Burnside Meyers, developed the dye charts that depict native plants and the colors that are derived from them. Isabel and her family continue the tradition of producing them in a wide variety of sizes. Other people produce the charts, but Isabel’s have the advantage that she actually dyes all of the…
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