The Weaving News
Tempe, AZ One of the things that people come to terms with when they’re learning to weave Navajo style is something that I learned from Pearl Sunrise at a class I took a long time ago (shortly after the Monster-Slayer Twins rid the Fourth World of nasty creatures). With great authority and wisdom, Pearl said…
Tempe, AZ Navajo visitors to our classroom often ask the students if they have done their own warps and are surprised to learn that they have. If our class were running in the traditional Navajo way of teaching weaving, Jennie and I would have done the warps before the class started we would have begun…
Tempe, AZ We’re all home now, so I’ll catch you up on some pictures that I took of our students during our latest class. Although I do an entry on our general activities during the class, I wait until after the session is over to post pictures of the students. Day one of the class…
Ganado, AZ The final event of this year’s Traders and Their Neighbors gathering organized by the Navajo Nation Museum was a tour of the Hubbell home at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic site. The home is behind the trading post and has been kept as much as possible the way it was when Dorothy…
Window Rock, AZ We concluded our October class with a trip to the Crownpoint Rug Auction, about 70 miles east of here. The auction is held each month at the Crownpoint Elementary School and is in it’s 41st year. Last night, approximately 120 bidders vied for about 170 rugs. There were some no sales, and…
Window Rock, AZ We took advantage a break in the windy weather of the last few days to do some natural dye work with Rose Dedman. Tomorrow will be the last full day of class and we were in the classroom just a little late tonight, so this will be brief. Below is a picture…
Window Rock, AZ We had a wonderful day at Canyon de Chelly. We took the half day tour and then met Spider Rock Girls Emily Malone, Alyssa Malone and Laramie Blake at the Thunderbird Lodge for lunch. Emily brought along some of the rugs she and the other girls had just finished abd several are…
Window Rock, AZ I’ll just post a couple of pictures quickly tonight. I need to be up and alert at 6 AM to go to Canyon de Chelly but I couldn’t resist sharing two pictures with you. We had a super visit to the Two Grey Hills area this afternoon and visited with Mark Winter…
Window Rock, AZ After a quiet morning of weaving with instructor Jennie Slick (pictured above), we spent the afternoon at R.B. Burnham and Company Trading Post in Sanders, AZ. Burnham’s has wool that is custom-spun for Navajo weaving and all of our classes really enjoy browsing through the vegetally dyed colors that hang from ceiling…
Window Rock, AZ Our class got started with their weaving today and we took some time out this afternoon to take a trip to Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, which is about 28 miles west of here in Ganado, Arizona. The site was sold to the National Park Service by Dorothy Smith Hubbell in…