It’s All About the Rugs
A Weaving Completed, A Weaving Begun
One of the participants in our seminar completed her first rug today. Barbara Spelman is an accomplished fiber artist and a partner in Crone Craft Studios in Tucson, Arizona, which makes her a busy person. Once a year, Barbara comes to Window Rock to study Navajo techniques and has applied many of them to her…
Read MoreAdvanced Weaving Seminar Visits and Projects
This was day two of our weaving seminar in Window Rock and we were pleased to have a visit with Morris Muskett who is an accomplished weaver and silversmith as well as a civil engineer with the New Mexico Department of Transportation. (Full disclosure: I also do Morris’s web site). Morris’s work encompasses an incredible…
Read MoreJennie Slick’s Weaving a Winner at Inter-tribal Ceremonial
I’ve just learned from a reliable source (the owner of the rug) that Jennie Slick’s Third Phase Chief Blanket weaving has won a second prize ribbon at the 87th Inter-tribal Ceremonial currently underway in Gallup, NM. I’ll be attending the Ceremonial this weekend, so I hope to have more reports on the weavers and weavings…
Read MoreRare Weaves: The Bisti Rug
In an earlier post, I made a reference to the Bisti area and received a question about the characteristics and history of the Bisti style of weaving. Many people have never heard of a Bisti rug and if they’ve seen one, they may not have recognized it. The name Bisti comes from the region where…
Read MoreDirectly from the Weaver: Selling Rugs on Ebay
Emily Malone and her family, also known as the Spider Rock Girls, are on the forefront of weavers looking for new outlets to sell their work and have their own web site as well as an Ebay account. Emily’s just finished this Transitional Burntwater rug and it’s on Ebay this weekend. She’s also entered it…
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