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 ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Like all legends, the story of Spider Woman changes depending upon whom you ask. The Hopis say she wove the ...

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 ...

On the Navajo Nation in Arizona, looking in any direction from her ancestral home, D.Y. Begay sees cliff formations “outlined in stepped patterns painted in bundles of red streaks, subtle shades of ...

Navajo mythology teaches that a legendary, holy woman who lived at Spider Rock – a tall red spire in the Canyon de Chelly, Ariz. – was taught to weave by a spider. Spider Woman, in turn, taught the ...

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, ...

Deb May leaned back to survey her work, a neat row of orange and brown wool tightly wrapped around a piece of wood. Did it look right? Would there be enough to make a knot and then warp the other side ...

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, ...