Weavers and Their Stories
One More Finished Rug, 10 Finished in Two Weeks!
One more student finished her rug on Friday evening, bringing our total of finished pieces in our two October sessions to an incredible and record-breaking 10. We have never had more than one student in a class finish during the week, so when we had six people finish in our first one week session, we…
Read MoreCanyon de Chelly and Lunch with the Spider Rock Girls
Yesterday, our group did a field trip to Canyon de Chelly for the morning tour. It was cold enough that the tour guide offered us blankets and they were welcome during the first part of the trip out to Antelope House. We took many pictures of the Anasazi ruins in the canyon, and we marveled…
Read MoreWeaving in Beauty October Class: Two Grey Hills and Toadlena
Today, our Window Rock class took a field trip to Two Grey Hills and Toadlena. These areas are noted for finely woven rugs woven in natural colors. There are two trading posts in this area, so we had a busy afternoon. We stopped at first at the Toadlena Trading Post and Rug Museum to visit…
Read MoreMark Winter at the Southwest Traders Rendezvous
I hope you’ll enjoy hearing Mark Winter talk about a recent trading experience that he had with 94 year old weaver Clara Sherman. Mark was at the the recent Southwest Traders Rendezvous in Cortez, Colorado and was participating in the show and tell portion of the program when he told this story on September 27,…
Read MoreWeaving on the Road
Jennie Slick and I will be doing a Navajo Weaving Boot Camp at Friendly Crossways Conference Center in Harvard, Massachusetts starting tomorrow evening. The boot camp is an intensive three day workshop on Navajo weaving that we’ve been doing for the last six years. Jennie always takes her C-Cactusflower loom with her and gets busy…
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