Rug Of The Day
Rug of the Day: The Flag of the Future by Jennie Slick
Tempe, AZ The United States flag is always on display at our house because this flag rug by Jennie Slick is in our family room. Jennie wove it in 2007 as a commission piece. She hadn’t ever woven a flag before. Five pointed stars are notoriously hard to weave using Navajo techniques, so she used…
Read MoreRug of the Day: Spring Pictorial by Sarah Tso
Tempe, AZ If you’re around Diné Bikeyah, the Navajo homeland, in the Spring of the year, you’re sure to see young animals and scenes aren’t too different from the one captured in this woven tribute to the Navajo lifeway by weaver Sarah Tso. Sarah has been weaving for the collectors market since about 1980 and…
Read MoreConvergence Announcement and Rug of the Day: Reverse Color Study by Arlene Anderson
Tempe, AZ Last year, Jennie Slick and I were honored to teach at the Handweavers Guild of America Covergence 2010 in Albuquerque, NM, a first for both of us. We were thrilled to see several students who had attended our classes in Window Rock and one of them, Arlene Anderson, stopped by with the completion…
Read MoreWeaving of the Day: Spiderwoman Shoulder Blanket by TahNibaa Naat’aanii (and Happy Birthday!)
Tempe, AZ TahNibaa Naat’aanii of Table Mesa, NM exemplifies the finest qualities of Navajo tradition in her constant blending of innovation with heritage. TahNibaa seeks a return to the times when Navajo textiles were used by Navajos as garments, before the introduction of machine made Pendleton patterns. In the intricately and beautifully fringed blanket above,…
Read MoreWeaving of the Day: Saddle Cinches by Jay Begay Make Your Horse Look Good
Tempe, AZ Up until horse accoutrements like saddle blankets, cinches and bridles were commercially available, Navajo weavers produced these items themselves, skillfully winding their warp threads between the necessary hardware, using it at the end of the warp instead of a rod. Cinches virtually disappeared until the late 20th century when weavers like Roy Kady…
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