Navajo Weaving Way

Navajo Weaving Way

Author: Noel Bennett

Publisher: Interweave

Published: 1997-07

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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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.


Weaving a World

Weaving a World

Author: Roseann Sandoval Willink

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 144

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Profiles a West Bengali caste specializing in producing painted narrative scrolls and performing songs to accompany their unrolling.


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

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

Author: Barbara Teller Ornelas

Publisher: Thrums Books

Published: 2020-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781734421705

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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 how weaving relates to the earth, the sky, and the sacred directions. You'll learn how the Navajo people were given their weaving tradition (and it wasn't borrowed from the Pueblos!), and how important a weaver's attitude and spirit are to creating successful rugs. You'll learn what it means to live in hózhó, the Beauty Way. Family stories from seven generations of weavers lend charm and special insights. Characteristic Native American humor is not in short supply. Their contribution to cultural understanding and the preservation of their craft is priceless.


Navajo and Hopi Weaving Techniques

Navajo and Hopi Weaving Techniques

Author: Mary Pendleton

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 174

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"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.


Designing with the Wool

Designing with the Wool

Author: Noël Bennett

Publisher: Northland Publishing

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13:

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


Working the Navajo Way

Working the Navajo Way

Author: Colleen M. O'Neill

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 264

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"O'Neill chronicles a history of Navajo labor that illuminates how cultural practices and values influenced what it meant to work for wages or to produce commodities for the marketplace. Through accounts of Navajo coal miners, weavers, and those who left the reservation in search of wage work, she explores the tension between making a living the Navajo way and "working elsewhere.""--BOOK JACKET.


Spider Woman's Children

Spider Woman's Children

Author: Barbara Teller Ornelas

Publisher: Thrums Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780999051757

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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.


A Guide to Navajo Rugs

A Guide to Navajo Rugs

Author: Susan Lamb

Publisher: Western National Parks Association

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781877856266

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Describes and depicts the seventeen most common Navajo rug styles, and includes quotes by some of the finest weavers crafting rugs today. Photos of rugs from Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site by George H. H. Huey.


Blanket Weaving in the Southwest

Blanket Weaving in the Southwest

Author: Joe Ben Wheat

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2003-10

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780816523047

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A history and description of southwestern textiles along with a catalog of Pueblo, Navajo, Mexican, and Spanish American blankets, ponchos, and sarapes.