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How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman
  • Language: en

How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman

  • Categories: Art

Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books about Navajo weaving, but no other book like this one. For the first time, master Navajo weavers themselves share the deep, inside story of how these textiles are created, and how their creation resonates in Navajo culture. Want to weave a high-quality, Navajo-style rug? This book has detailed how-to instructions, meticulously illustrated by a Navajo artist, from warping the loom to important finishing touches. Want to understand the deeper meaning? You'll learn why the fixed parts of the loom are male, and the working parts are female. You'll learn ...

Spider Woman's Children
  • Language: en

Spider Woman's Children

Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post. Their family and clan connections give them rare insight, as this volume takes readers into traditional hogans, remote trading posts, reservation housing neighborhoods, and urban apartments to meet weavers who follow the paths of their ancestors, who innovate with new designs and techniques, and who uphold time-honored standards of excellence. Throughout the text are beautifully depicted examples of the finest, most mindful weaving this rich tradition has to offer.

How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman

Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books about Navajo weaving, but no other book like this one. For the first time, master Navajo weavers themselves share the deep, inside story of how these textiles are created, and how their creation resonates in Navajo culture. Want to weave a high-quality, Navajo-style rug? This book has detailed how-to instructions, meticulously illustrated by a Navajo artist, from warping the loom to important finishing touches. Want to understand the deeper meaning? You'll learn why the fixed parts of the loom are male, and the working parts are female. You'll learn ...

Spider Woman's Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

Spider Woman's Children

Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. Their history and value to collectors is unparalleled. But what about the people who create these treasures? You might be surprised. Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture, and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post. Their family and clan connections give them rare insight into where the craft has been and where it is going. They take you into traditional hogans, remote trading posts, re...

Navajo and Hopi Weaving Techniques
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Navajo and Hopi Weaving Techniques

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1974
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Provides clear, step-by-step instructions, along with illustrations, for weaving Navajo rugs and Hopi ceremonial sashes in exactly the same way as the craftsmen of these two neighboring tribes have woven them for generations"--Cover.

Swept Under the Rug
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Swept Under the Rug

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Debunks the romanticist stereotyping of Navajo weavers and Reservation traders and situates weavers within the economic history of the southwest.

Navajo Textiles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Navajo Textiles

Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science—one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug trade in the mid-nineteenth century and changes in the Navajo textile market while highlighting the museum’s important, though still relatively unknown, collection of Navajo textiles. In this unique collaboration among anthropologists, museums, and Navajo weavers, the authors provide a narrative of the acquisition of the Crane Collection and a history of Navajo weaving. Personal reflections and ins...

Navajo Weaving Way
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Navajo Weaving Way

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-07
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  • Publisher: Interweave

This revision of the authors' Working with the wool, with much Navajo tradition and many photos added, is a guide to Navajo rug weaving, from carding & spinning through set up and weaving.

Designing with the Wool
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 134

Designing with the Wool

A step-by-step manual that illustrates techniques for constructing looms and other weaving tools and making Navajo rug designs.

Ray Manley's The Fine Art of Navajo Weaving
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 52

Ray Manley's The Fine Art of Navajo Weaving

Full-color photographs accompanied by descriptions of styles, locations and histories of Navajo rugs.