Trading Posts
Weaving in Beauty October Class: A Field Trip to R.B. Burnham and Company
Window Rock, AZ After a quiet morning of weaving with instructor Jennie Slick (pictured above), we spent the afternoon at R.B. Burnham and Company Trading Post in Sanders, AZ. Burnham’s has wool that is custom-spun for Navajo weaving and all of our classes really enjoy browsing through the vegetally dyed colors that hang from ceiling…
Read MoreWarning! Don’t Look At This If You Already Have Enough Yarn!
Sanders, AZ I put together the photo collage above as part of an update that I was doing for the R.B. Burnham & Co. web site and I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the rugs that they have in their gallery as well as the summer crop of vegetally dyed yarns by Marie…
Read MoreToadlena Trading Post Centennial
Toadlena, NM The Toadlena Trading Post is celebrating 100 years in business with a new exhibit that documents the weaving genealogy of the Bear Clan. Trading post owner Mark Winter has gathered rugs representing Bear Clan weavers who are in the living memory of the present generation. Each matriarch and her descendants are documented in…
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Window Rock, Arizona We continued weaving today, and tonight several students were approaching the halfway point in their work. The picture above shows three of the students earlier in the day. We made a switch in our itinerary due to the winds in the area today. We’ll be doing natural dyes with Rose Dedman in…
Read MoreThe Business of Navajo Weaving in a Down Economy
Several people have asked me how Navajo weavers are doing in this economic downturn. That’s not an easy question to answer because Navajo weaving is sold in several ways, each affected differently by economic conditions. Most Navajo weaving is sold as Native American craft work. Although this market has slowed, it has drawn strength from…
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