The Weaving News
Gerard Begay started weaving about six months ago and brought an astonishing five rugs to the Gathering of Weavers.
This cute purse by Laramie Blake is headed for the Weaving in Beauty Mercantile. It will be priced at $180.
Weavers who use Navajo techniques and are looking for a small portable Navajo loom now have a new option! Jennie Slick’s son, Fred Tso has been building small looms for our classes and we sold every single one that he made except for one that Jennie uses because Fred’s daughter decided to help her Dad…
If you read yesterday’s article, you understand why I’m going to the Gathering of Weavers: Navajo Weavers Marketplace at the Heard Museum on November 2. Today, I’m going to extol the virtues of the Pueblo Grand Annual Navajo Rug Auction and then you’ll understand why I can’t pass that event up either. What’s the…
Sometimes I wonder if the quantum physicists are right about being able to be in two places at once. It would really come in handy this coming Saturday. There are two major weaving events that are happening in Phoenix and I’m going to do my best to get to both of them. Let’s talk about…
A Happy Ending for a Navajo Rug Thanks for all of the interest in Laramie Blake’s Burntwater rug! In fact, Weaving in Beauty site traffic broke it’s one day record with a total of 604 visitors. To catch you up, Laramie’s Burntwater style Navajo rug (which she’s holding in the picture above) hadn’t sold at…
I’m in Flagstaff, Arizona this weekend to do some appraisals and to attend the Flagstaff Cultural Partners Navajo Rug Auction, which was yesterday afternoon. Twenty two year weaver Laramie Blake “caught a ride” to the auction with me. She had a rug in the auction with a reserve bid of $600 and it didn’t sell.…
“Wow, do I ever wish this weaving could talk!” When I’m analyzing a rug, there are so many times that I’ve said that to myself or to whoever was in earshot. Well, in May I found one that could talk. OK, it might be more appropriate to say that it had a good interpreter. It…
Tempe, AZ There are certain weavers who have a way of formatting their work that makes it instantly recognizable but never repetitive. It’s really kind of a signature. Cheryl Yazzie’s pictorial weaving, for instance, is like a window that she opens to let us see into her view of the Navajo world and…
I have made my mind up that I’ve got to get back to writing about Navajo weaving! Did you ever get involved with a project that turned out to be a little bigger than you’d thought? Well, I decided to make some architectural changes to the site and it turned out to be more of…