The Crownpoint Rug Auction got started in 1968 as a way for Navajo weavers to profit more from their hand-spun and woven textiles that were once used casually as saddle blankets, but were quickly ...

Sep. 18—Charley Castles' infatuation with Navajo rugs took root as a child watching stories about the Wild West on television in the 1950s, and it's an appreciation he still holds deeply today ...

Clark family’s Navajo rug auction has supported CU Museum of Natural History for more than 30 years Start unraveling the annual 100 Navajo Rugs silent auction, one of the longest-running, most ...

The exhibit, titled “Navajo Weavings: Tradition and Trade,” will open at the museum on July 14 and features 26 pictorial woven designs depicting elements of indigenous life and culture in the ...

There are countless stories that paint vivid pictures of the rich Navajo history in the southwest. One Navajo woman is helping keep the ancestral tradition of weaving alive.

The Navajo weaving tradition threads its way through some of the earliest Mexican inspired Saltillo serapes to mid-century pictorial rugs. More than a dozen items of this particular art form will ...

After 40 years of research, Jean-Paul Valette and Rebecca Valette published the book Navajo Weavings with Ceremonial Themes: A Historical Overview of a Secular Art Form. Featuring more than 500 photos ...

The patterns that Urban Outfitters is selling as "Navajo" are likely inspired by traditional Navajo rugs, Hanley says as she sorts through the piles of hand-woven rugs in the Heard's gift shop.

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 ...