Shepherd's Cross in Claremore is handing down the art of Navajo weaving. As students learn how to weave a Navajo rug, they also learn the history behind it. "We're losing a lot of these older ...
For centuries, the lives of Navajo people have been intertwined with livestock - specifically, one particular breed of sheep they've relied on for meat and wool. The tribe is well known for weaving ...
Marilyn Greaves’ Fair Oaks home is filled with Navajo items that she has collected or made. One of her larger pieces is this Two Grey Hills-inspired rug in her living room. This weekend, she will ...
Childhood memories came flooding back to Marlene Stevenson during last week’s Navajo rug weaving workshop at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Stevenson, who lives in Mission and works at ...
When a woman wants to retire from a long and distinguished career so she can enjoy being a grandma, that usually doesn’t qualify as big news. But when that woman is Ruby Hubbard, master weaver at ...
A Navajo rug and jewelry show is taking place in Scottsdale. The show is free, and proceeds from sales will support native weavers. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Navajo rugs, jewelry and crafts are just some of ...
Today's topic is Native American rugs, but there is a pressing question to be answered first: What is the difference between a rug and a carpet? Anyone? Anyone? I use them interchangeably, but they ...
Many of the totemic Native American crafts of the Southwest are so familiar as to be almost clichéd, ubiquitously hawked as they are, from the counters of the cheesiest gas-and-Slurpee pit stops to ...
ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico (KVIA) -- The Western National Parks Association is teaming up with Hubbell Trading Post to put on a Navajo Rug Show at White Sands National Park. The event is happening October ...
The Diné (aka Navajo) people have been using their weaving as trade goods at least since European contact, and probably long before. They’ve never shied from adopting innovation: churro sheep from the ...