Posts by Mary Walker
Southwest Trader Rendezvous
Cortez, CO I came straight to Cortez when Jennie Slick and I returned from our Boston workshop to attend the Southwest Traders Rendezvous. This event is sponsored by the Cortez Cultural Center and provides a venue for traders to discuss their stories and the past, present and future of the trading business. As you might…
Read MoreA Few Pictures from Our Boston Workshop
Jennie Slick and I are getting ready to return home to Arizona. We took a couple of days off after our workshop in Boston and I’ve been looking at slide show software that allows the show to be embedded in a web page. Here are a few pictures from the workshop! Thanks to all of…
Read MoreWeaving Workshop in Harvard, Massachusetts
Jennie Slick and I have spent the last two days doing a workshop in Harvard, MA at the Friendly Crossways Conference Cetner. Our class of 12 students has done a wonderful job and we’ve had a great time. We are already talking about another workshop next year, so please be sure to check for exact…
Read MoreWeaving on the Road
Jennie Slick and I will be doing a Navajo Weaving Boot Camp at Friendly Crossways Conference Center in Harvard, Massachusetts starting tomorrow evening. The boot camp is an intensive three day workshop on Navajo weaving that we’ve been doing for the last six years. Jennie always takes her C-Cactusflower loom with her and gets busy…
Read MoreThe Navajos and The Amazing Cochineal Beetle, Part I
Jennie Slick and I are in Albuquerque on our way to do a three day workshop in Massachusetts. Just before I left Phoenix, I washed and rinsed some custom yarns for the students to look at. One group of them was dyed with cochineal. There’s a picture of the grouping below. Isn’t it amazing that…
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