Posts by Mary Walker
4th Annual Maxwell Museum Navajo Rug Auction (Albuquerque, NM)
Date: November 20, 2010 (Preview 1:00-3:00, Auction: 3:30) Location: Prairie Star Restaurant, 288 Prairie Star Road, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM Phone: 505-277-9866 Details: 200-300 contemporary and vintage weavings [mappress mapid=”1″]
Read More2011 Weaving in Beauty Calendar is Now Available
Tempe, AZ The 2011 version of the Weaving in Beauty calendar has just been added to the Publications page in the Weaving in Beauty Mercantile. The calendar features Navajo weavers, weaving students, traders and trading posts and as many examples of the Navajo weaving art as possible. This year’s cover features 18 year old weaver…
Read MoreAn Update: Anasazi Ye’i Sale Pending
Tempe, AZ For those of you contemplating raiding your 401k plan or selling your gold, I just spoke with Larry Fulbright, and a sale is pending on the Pauline Yellowhair’s Anasazi Ye’i that I wrote about yesterday (please scroll down to the previous article). This will also save several of us from buying lottery tickets. …
Read MoreEverybody Say Wow! A Remarkable Weaving by Pauline Yellowhair
Tempe, AZ My trader/auctioneer friend Bruce Burnham likes to encourage audiences to say “Yay!” whenever a Ye’i rug comes up for sale at one of his auctions, but everyone who sees Pauline Yellowhair’s remarkable weaving above just says “Wow!” Pauline is a 72 year old weaver with a self-reported 67 years of weaving experience and…
Read MoreMaybe it Twill!
Window Rock, AZ Jennie Slick and I are starting to do a monthly weaving class for people who live in the area around Window Rock. Many of our local students are Navajo and know the weaving basics, but are interested in learning advanced techniques the their family members aren’t familiar with or that they haven’t…
Read More