Posts by Mary Walker
Rug of the Day: A New Storm by Marlowe Katoney
Prescott, AZ I love my job. I get to help people care for their Navajo textiles. I get to coordinate classes so that people can learn to weave the Navajo way. I get to meet weavers. Last Saturday, I met an exciting young weaver at the Smoki Museum rug auction and I’d like you to…
Read MoreRug of the Day: Alice Chischilly Wilson’s Weaving Looks Around Her Home
Tempe, AZ I first met Alice Chischilly Wilson in 2003. The Gallup Inter-tribal Ceremonial, which was perennially in financial trouble, was trying to raise money by sponsoring a monthly rug auction and my friends Hank Blair and Bruce Burnham were the auctioneers. My friend Jennie Slick and I would go each month and help out. …
Read MoreRug of the Day: The Flag of the Future by Jennie Slick
Tempe, AZ The United States flag is always on display at our house because this flag rug by Jennie Slick is in our family room. Jennie wove it in 2007 as a commission piece. She hadn’t ever woven a flag before. Five pointed stars are notoriously hard to weave using Navajo techniques, so she used…
Read MoreRug of the Day: Spring Pictorial by Sarah Tso
Tempe, AZ If you’re around Diné Bikeyah, the Navajo homeland, in the Spring of the year, you’re sure to see young animals and scenes aren’t too different from the one captured in this woven tribute to the Navajo lifeway by weaver Sarah Tso. Sarah has been weaving for the collectors market since about 1980 and…
Read MoreConvergence Announcement and Rug of the Day: Reverse Color Study by Arlene Anderson
Tempe, AZ Last year, Jennie Slick and I were honored to teach at the Handweavers Guild of America Covergence 2010 in Albuquerque, NM, a first for both of us. We were thrilled to see several students who had attended our classes in Window Rock and one of them, Arlene Anderson, stopped by with the completion…
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