Posts by Mary Walker
Update: What Happens When the Navajo Rug Doesn’t Sell?
A Happy Ending for a Navajo Rug Thanks for all of the interest in Laramie Blake’s Burntwater rug! In fact, Weaving in Beauty site traffic broke it’s one day record with a total of 604 visitors. To catch you up, Laramie’s Burntwater style Navajo rug (which she’s holding in the picture above) hadn’t sold at…
Read MoreWhat Happens When the Rug Doesn’t Sell: Laramie Blake’s Burntwater
I’m in Flagstaff, Arizona this weekend to do some appraisals and to attend the Flagstaff Cultural Partners Navajo Rug Auction, which was yesterday afternoon. Twenty two year weaver Laramie Blake “caught a ride” to the auction with me. She had a rug in the auction with a reserve bid of $600 and it didn’t sell.…
Read MoreCarletta Hayah’s Talking Blanket
“Wow, do I ever wish this weaving could talk!” When I’m analyzing a rug, there are so many times that I’ve said that to myself or to whoever was in earshot. Well, in May I found one that could talk. OK, it might be more appropriate to say that it had a good interpreter. It…
Read MoreCheryl Yazzie’s Pictorial Weaving: A Clear Signature in Wool
Tempe, AZ There are certain weavers who have a way of formatting their work that makes it instantly recognizable but never repetitive. It’s really kind of a signature. Cheryl Yazzie’s pictorial weaving, for instance, is like a window that she opens to let us see into her view of the Navajo world and…
Read MoreLearning Navajo Weaving at Richardson’s Trading Post
I have made my mind up that I’ve got to get back to writing about Navajo weaving! Did you ever get involved with a project that turned out to be a little bigger than you’d thought? Well, I decided to make some architectural changes to the site and it turned out to be more of…
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