The Weaving News
Tempe, AZ Sometimes, a weaving stops me in my tracks. Usually, it’s because the design is something unusual or the colors are stunning. In the case of today’s weaving by Glora Begay of Crownpoint, NM, the arresting factors are in sheer excellence: the yarn preparation, the elegant classic design, and the absolute precision of…
Tempe, AZ Regular readers have noticed that I’ve been going to Chinle a lot lately and I promised to let you know why. Well, I’ve been part of a little team of weavers who have been helping a young fellow weaver make the transition to college. Spider Rock Girl Laramie Blake has started classes and…
Santa Fe, NM I’m at Indian Market for the next few days as part of the R.B. Burnham and Co. Native Treasures Show at the El Dorado Hotel Pavillion. Many of the weavers whose work is included in our class samples can’t get here, and I wanted to show them off and give them some…
Window Rock, Navajo Nation I’m on my way to Santa Fe for Indian Market and it’s been a busy few days since the Crownpoint Rug Auction, but I wanted to share this stunning rug by Lena Tahe of Hardrock, Arizona. If you look closely at the rug (be sure to click on the picture for…
Tempe, AZ I just got home from a class in Window Rock, but I think that the weavers bringing their rugs to the Crownpoint Rug Auction could probably use all the support that they can get this month. That’s right, I’m going to Crownpoint tomorrow. One look at the picture collage above will show you…
Prescott, AZ I love my job. I get to help people care for their Navajo textiles. I get to coordinate classes so that people can learn to weave the Navajo way. I get to meet weavers. Last Saturday, I met an exciting young weaver at the Smoki Museum rug auction and I’d like you to…
Tempe, AZ I first met Alice Chischilly Wilson in 2003. The Gallup Inter-tribal Ceremonial, which was perennially in financial trouble, was trying to raise money by sponsoring a monthly rug auction and my friends Hank Blair and Bruce Burnham were the auctioneers. My friend Jennie Slick and I would go each month and help out. …
Tempe, AZ The United States flag is always on display at our house because this flag rug by Jennie Slick is in our family room. Jennie wove it in 2007 as a commission piece. She hadn’t ever woven a flag before. Five pointed stars are notoriously hard to weave using Navajo techniques, so she used…
Tempe, AZ If you’re around Diné Bikeyah, the Navajo homeland, in the Spring of the year, you’re sure to see young animals and scenes aren’t too different from the one captured in this woven tribute to the Navajo lifeway by weaver Sarah Tso. Sarah has been weaving for the collectors market since about 1980 and…
Tempe, AZ Last year, Jennie Slick and I were honored to teach at the Handweavers Guild of America Covergence 2010 in Albuquerque, NM, a first for both of us. We were thrilled to see several students who had attended our classes in Window Rock and one of them, Arlene Anderson, stopped by with the completion…