Weavers and Their Stories
Toadlena 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…
Read MoreA Circle of Giving
At the Adopt a Native Elder October 2008 Food Run at Sanders, one of the elders asked her daughter to see if Linda Myers of ANE could get a “carding machine”. Linda was not sure what the elder wanted and sent weaver Barbara Spelman to ask more questions, and determine what it was the…
Read MoreWays to Improve Your “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” Essay: Don’t Miss These Exhibits!
Two inspiring weaving exhibits are taking place over the next few months and you’ll want to visit them both if you can possibly do it. The Generations exhibit from Toadena Trading Post runs through January 23, 2010 at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, AZ, and the Diamonds, Dreams and Landscapes exhibit at the…
Read MoreWeaving in Beauty Spring Class: Exhibit Openings and Visitors
Window Rock, AZ Lula and Herman Brown came by this morning to show us one of the small looms that they use to produce the Navajo miniatures that they’re famous for. The small Tree of Life rug on the loom has an astounding 60 birds. Lula also brought some of her newly finished rugs to…
Read MoreNew Links! William Whitehair and Adopt a Native Elder
I’ve just added two interesting new links to the site and I hope that you’ll enjoy both of them. Weaver William Whitehair of Dinnebito, AZ has a web site link in the weaver’s section. William weaves as part of a traditional Navajo lifeway that includes raising churro sheep, cattle, goats and horses. William also acts…
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