Posts Tagged ‘Natural dye’
Spring Weaving in Beauty Class: Natural Dyes the Navajo Way
Window Rock, AZ Today, we spent the morning with Rose Dedman. Rose’s late mother was a proficient Navajo dye artist and Rose is carrying on her traditional dyeing methods. We went to the Defiance Plateau and picked fragrant spring sage, ground lichen, and rabbitbrush. Rose had been saving Navajo tea and black walnuts, giving us…
Read MoreBarking Up the Right Tree
A couple of times a year, I do dye classes for the Fiber Factory in Mesa, Arizona. Last weekend, we worked with various bark dyes and walnut hulls. Contemporary Navajo weavers like D.Y. Begay and Roy Kady also use some of these exotic barks, but traditional Navajo weavers have used mountain mahogany, black walnut and…
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