The Weaving News
Date: November 20, 2010 (Preview 1:00-3:00, Auction: 3:30) Location: Prairie Star Restaurant, 288 Prairie Star Road, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM Phone: 505-277-9866 Details: 200-300 contemporary and vintage weavings [mappress mapid=”1″]
Tempe, AZ The 2011 version of the Weaving in Beauty calendar has just been added to the Publications page in the Weaving in Beauty Mercantile. The calendar features Navajo weavers, weaving students, traders and trading posts and as many examples of the Navajo weaving art as possible. This year’s cover features 18 year old weaver…
Tempe, AZ For those of you contemplating raiding your 401k plan or selling your gold, I just spoke with Larry Fulbright, and a sale is pending on the Pauline Yellowhair’s Anasazi Ye’i that I wrote about yesterday (please scroll down to the previous article). This will also save several of us from buying lottery tickets. …
Tempe, AZ My trader/auctioneer friend Bruce Burnham likes to encourage audiences to say “Yay!” whenever a Ye’i rug comes up for sale at one of his auctions, but everyone who sees Pauline Yellowhair’s remarkable weaving above just says “Wow!” Pauline is a 72 year old weaver with a self-reported 67 years of weaving experience and…
Window Rock, AZ Jennie Slick and I are starting to do a monthly weaving class for people who live in the area around Window Rock. Many of our local students are Navajo and know the weaving basics, but are interested in learning advanced techniques the their family members aren’t familiar with or that they haven’t…
Tempe, AZ September’s Crownpoint Rug Auction was relatively small (130 rugs) and was attended by about 45 buyers. There are quite a few auctions at this time of year and they continue up to December with one of the major events being held at Hubbell Trading Post this coming weekend on September 18th. Many of…
Click on any picture to see it in full size Tempe, AZ The day after our visit to HGA’s Convergence 2010 ended, Jennie Slick and I started a week long class in Window Rock. What lunatic schedules these class marathons? Me, that’s who. It seemed to make sense last year when I put it on…
Window Rock, Navajo Nation Roy Kady posted a message on Facebook today saying that Two Grey Hills master weaver and national treasure Clara Sherman has passed away at the age of 96. Although she has been in declining health in the last couple of years, she continued to weave until she was 94. She received…
Window Rock, Navajo Nation It’s been a whirlwind two weeks for Jennie Slick and me and a time that we will always remember. Last week, we were at the Handweaver’s Guild of America’s Convergence 2010 in Albuquerque, New Mexico where we taught several classes, visited with old friends and met many, many new ones. We…
Tempe, AZ Jim David, who often stops by the web site to catch up on the weaving news, recently contacted me to share pictures of two rugs woven by his aunt, Lillie Dugi of Cameron, AZ. Jim is assisting his aunt in the sale of her work. Contemporary weavers often seek marketing assistance from relatives…