Weavers and Their Stories
Heard Museum Indian Fair 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!
Read MoreThe 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 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 MoreWhat Happens When the Rug Doesn’t Sell: Laramie Blake’s Burntwater
I’m in Flagstaff, Arizona this weekend to do some appraisals and to attend the Flagstaff Cultural Partners Navajo Rug Auction, which was yesterday afternoon. Twenty two year weaver Laramie Blake “caught a ride” to the auction with me. She had a rug in the auction with a reserve bid of $600 and it didn’t sell.…
Read MoreThere is No Substitute: The Navajo Biil Dress
Tempe, AZ Frequent commenter Kathleen Bernett asked me for a better picture of what really does look like a pink rug in this picture (click to enlarge it) from Sunday’s post about the Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market. It’s not a rug; it’s a dress, I told Kathleen. As you can see in…
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