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Rug Of The Day

Heard Museum Indian Fair 2023

March 17, 2023
Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market 2023

One of the year’s highlights is the Heard Museum Fair and Indian Market.  Presenting a gallery of pictures from 2023 and looking forward to 2024.  Wonderful work, wonderful friends, wonderful time.  See you next year!

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Carletta Hayah’s Talking Blanket

September 3, 2013

“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…

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Cheryl Yazzie’s Pictorial Weaving: A Clear Signature in Wool

September 2, 2013

  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…

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More Woven Thoughts: Antique Navajo Weaving

March 1, 2012

Tempe, AZ  I couldn’t take you to the River Trading Post, so I thought that I should share the other pictures that I took there when I visited on Tuesday.   The Ye’i Bi Chei rug that I showed yesterday is a showstopper, but the other rugs in the collection are each remarkable in their…

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What Would The Weaver Think: Antique Navajo Weaving as Fine Art

February 29, 2012

Tempe, AZ  One day about 100 years ago, a Navajo weaver near Shiprock, New Mexico spent the better part of a year weaving the rug that you see above.  It’s woven with Navajo Churro yarn and the quality of the weaving and the design symmetry tell us that the weaver must have been a highly…

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Weaving in Beauty is dedicated to expanding the appreciation and knowledge of the textiles of what is now the southwestern United States. We offer cleaning, repair and appraisal of flatwoven textiles and we coordinate classes in fiber techniques to help others learn.

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