Posts Tagged ‘Ella Mae Nez’
Rug of the Day: Visions of a Magic Carpet by Ella Mae Nez
Tempe, AZ With so much of our news centered on the Middle East today, I immediately sought out a picture of this magnificent rug woven in 2007-2008 by Ella Mae Nez. Nominally this design is a Burntwater, but in many ways it can be seen as a magic carpet that shows how the vision and…
Read MoreOn the Subject of Spirit Lines
I’ve got a meeting to get to tonight, so I’ll just do a brief follow up to the end of yesterday’s post on the Spiderwoman hole and its relationship to the spirit line. There’s a school of thought that runs along the line that most aspects of Navajo weaving, including the use of a spirit…
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