Archive for April 2010
Special Assignment Completed: Spider Rock Graduation Album Posted
Tempe, AZ You can find Spider Rock Girl Laramie Blake’s graduation album on her page at the Spider Rock Girls web site. There are 29 pictures in the album. Hagoshíí (so long for now) Mary Walker
Read MoreSpecial Assignment: Spider Rock Girl Graduation Pictures
Chinle, AZ Spider Rock Girl Laramie Blake will be graduating from Chinle High School on May 22nd and I was honored to be asked to take her graduation pictures. We spent about two hours at the Spider Rock overlook at Canyon de Chelly today, taking about 125 pictures that we browsed through over dinner at…
Read MoreMorris Muskett to Offer Classes in Weaving
Albuquerque, NM Master weaver and silversmith Morris Musket is beginning to offer classes in Navajo and other indigenous weaving techniques. He is currently working with one private student and will work with you to arrange classes in the Albuquerque-Santa Fe area. He’s also willing to do combined class/tour events and will travel to your area…
Read MoreThe Best and the Brightest (Natural Dyes, That Is)
Mesa, AZ It’s April and the thermometer in the Valley of the Sun is in the 90 degree range. It’s indigo weather! Add some cochineal bugs, munjeet (a type of madder) and osage orange sawdust and you’ve got a rainbow in the making. Cochineal and indigo color some of the yarns used by Navajo…
Read MoreNew Online Class Sessions: The Teach High Touch with High Tech Adventure Continues
Tempe, AZ There are a lot of people stopping by here on a regular basis who are interested in learning to weave Navajo style. Back in December, one of the more avid students and I engaged in some conjecture about whether it would be effective to do an online class, and we came to the…
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