The Weaving News
You can see why there is no way that I will miss either of these events. Tempe, AZ If you take a look at the calendar on the left, you’ll see why my weekend is shaping up to be really, really busy. Here in the Phoenix area, out of the whole year, there are two…
Chinle, AZ Sometimes when I talk to my serious collector friends, we’ll lament that some of the best weavers are not innovators in design, that they don’t “push the envelope” or “think outside the box” or any of a number of cliched terms that say that we want to see something fresh and new…
Tempe, AZ This year was the first time that Jennie Slick and I have done five(!) classes in Window Rock. The first of our new sessions was in June, soon after the Estes Park Wool Market, where we’d done a two day workshop in intermediate to advanced weaving techniques. The southwestern summer was in full…
The 2012 Weaving in Beauty Calendar is available for purchase in the Mercantile! The calendar pictures were all taken within the last eighteen months and represent a snapshot of the year in our corner of the weaving world. Master weaver Emily Malone is on the cover this year and she’s shown holding the start of…
Tempe, AZ Five months ago, Jennie Slick and I started our classes in Window Rock for this year. Sitting here in Tempe now, in some ways it seems like five years ago, and in other ways it was more like five minutes. We had a wonderful class in May. One of the special treats was…
Chinle, AZ We have just returned from a wonderful and unforgettable day of weaving at Spider Rock. Emily Malone and her daughter Larissa Blake graciously opened their home at the base of Spider Rock to our students and even taught us how to make frybread and Navajo tortillas. It turns out that making a good…
Chinle, AZ This is day one of our new class, the Spider Rock Girls Boarding School and I wanted to post a couple of pictures before I turn in for the night. We’ve gotten the looms warped and Emily Malone and her daughter Larissa Blake are getting the students busy with weaving patterns. Tomorrow, we…
Albuquerque, NM One of Gilbert Begay’s handwoven bags, probably similar in design to the one above has taken top honors at the New Mexico State Fair. An ecstatic Gilbert posted on Facebook tonight “I won First Place on my Handwoven bag and Second Place on my Navajo Sash Belt….. Bah Hozho Shi Dine’e!!!! For those…
Tempe, AZ I always spend longer than I plan to in the Toadlena/Two Grey Hills area and I came across the picture above when I was scouting out the Evelyn George picture in the previous entry. To weave a round rug using Navajo techniques is to be initiated into some closely guarded secrets for both…
Tempe, AZ The Two Grey Hills design is one of the patterns that leap immediately into people’s minds when they think of Navajo weaving. The browns, beiges, blacks and grays that form the Two Grey Hills palette harmonize with many different decorating schemes and the color limitations seem to spark the creativity of…