A mother and daughter from the Ganado area are taking Navajo weaving patterns from vertical looms into a new rug line set to ...

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 ...

There I compared subtle Pueblo and Hopi weaving with the bolder work of the Navajo; saw a rug done in the traditional, geometrical, muted Two Grey Hills style by Daisy Taugelchee, a master Navajo ...

The pieces on display at the Lancaster Quilt and Textile Museum feature rich, intense colors. The patterns range from bold, straight lines to complex geometric shapes. They were made for mostly ...

Warner Southern College will host a unique four-day program beginning Monday. Fiber artist Jennie Slick will be the college's artist in residence, demonstrating the traditional art of Navajo weaving.

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 ...

SHIPROCK, NM — Prior to the 19th century, Navajo textiles were both decorative and utilitarian: cotton, dog hair, and later Churro sheep wool introduced by the Spanish were used to weave blankets, ...

“The Navajo weaver often rubs a spider’s web into her hands to bless herself before beginning a weaving. A child also received the blessing of the web so that one day she may grow to be a fine weaver ...

While visiting the National Gallery of Canada, Sharif noticed a pattern on a Navajo textile from New Mexico that looked similar to the pattern on Intel's Pentium processor. The textile, called ...

GANADO, Ariz. -- Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona, Nikyle Begay always wanted to visit their grandmother's sheep. Begay's parents had grown up raising livestock, ...

Woven history: During a recent visit to the National Gallery of Art, computer historian Ken Shirriff stumbled across a Navajo weaving with a strangely familiar pattern. Upon closer inspection, he ...