It’s All About the Rugs
The Electrifying Designs of Melissa Cody
Melissa Cody comes from a family of phenomenal weavers. Her grandmother, Martha Schultz has woven for over six decades and her mother Lola Cody has won prizes at both the Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market and at the Santa Fe Indian Market. In addition to her impeccable weaving lineage, Melissa is a graduate…
Read MoreWeaving in Beauty June 2013: Weaving The Start of a Busy Summer
So just like everyone else, I wonder where 2013 went, but I can look through my picture library and get a pretty good idea. If you take 5000 pictures a year at work, you can tell what you’ve been up to. I guess that’s what the people at Facebook are banking on. Now, I’ve…
Read MoreA Gathering of Weavers: The Heard Museum Weaver’s Marketplace
For about the last six weeks, all of the conversations that I’ve been involved in with Navajo weavers have included this question: “Are you going to the Gathering of Weavers”? Over the last five years, this unique event at the Heard Museum has become an important venue for master weavers who sell their…
Read MoreBarbara Teller Ornelas and A Gathering of Weavers
The Heard Museum Gathering of Weavers is a unique event where Navajo weavers market their work directly to customers. It started as a fairly small event five years ago and has struggled somewhat to find a niche in a tight economy, but it seems to have reached that spot where the weavers find it a…
Read MoreFlorence Riggs’ Pictorial Sold and Happy Birthday to Florence!
Florence Riggs brought her hogan interior weaving to the Gathering of Weavers at the Heard Museum. It’s woven from Brown Sheep’s finer weight yarn and is set at 10 warps per inch. There are over 50 rows in each inch! Florence’s weaving didn’t find a buyer at the Heard, so its still for sale directly…
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