How To Weave A Navajo Rug And Other Lessons From Spider Woman

Author : Barbara Teller Ornelas
Publisher : Thrums Books
ISBN 13 : 9781734421705
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman written by Barbara Teller Ornelas and published by Thrums Books. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Barbara Teller Ornelas
Publisher : Thrums Books
ISBN 13 : 9780999051757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spider Woman's Children written by Barbara Teller Ornelas and published by Thrums Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mary Pendleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo and Hopi Weaving Techniques written by Mary Pendleton and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Gladys Amanda Reichard
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826317933
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spider Woman written by Gladys Amanda Reichard and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to stay with the family of Red-Point, a well-known Navajo singer, it was unusual for an anthropologist to live with a family and become intimately connected with women's activities. First published in 1934 for a popular audience, Spider Woman is valued today not just for its information on Navajo culture but as an early example of the kind of personal, honest ethnography that presents actual experiences and conversations rather than generalizing the beliefs and behaviors of a whole culture. Readers interested in Navajo weaving will find it especially useful, but Spider Woman's picture of daily life goes far beyond rugs to describe trips to the trading post, tribal council meetings, curing ceremonies, and the deaths of family members.

Author : Gladys Amanda Reichard
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486229920
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weaving a Navajo Blanket written by Gladys Amanda Reichard and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinning, carding, and dyeing yarns, constructing a loom, tension, and the weaving processes are discussed in this guide to the art of blanket and saddleblanket weaving

Author : Noël Bennett
Publisher : Northland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing with the Wool written by Noël Bennett and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step manual that illustrates techniques for constructing looms and other weaving tools and making Navajo rug designs.

Author : Laurie D. Webster
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607326736
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Textiles written by Laurie D. Webster and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science—one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug trade in the mid-nineteenth century and changes in the Navajo textile market while highlighting the museum’s important, though still relatively unknown, collection of Navajo textiles. In this unique collaboration among anthropologists, museums, and Navajo weavers, the authors provide a narrative of the acquisition of the Crane Collection and a history of Navajo weaving. Personal reflections and insights from foremost Navajo weavers D. Y. Begay and Lynda Teller Pete are also featured, and more than one hundred stunning full-color photographs of the textiles in the collection are accompanied by technical information about the materials and techniques used in their creation. An introduction by Ann Lane Hedlund documents the growing collaboration between Navajo weavers and museums in Navajo textile research. The legacy of Navajo weaving is complex and intertwined with the history of the Diné themselves. Navajo Textiles makes the history and practice of Navajo weaving accessible to an audience of scholars and laypeople both within and outside the Diné community.

Author : Steve Getzwiller
Publisher : Ray Manley Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780931418082
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ray Manley's The Fine Art of Navajo Weaving written by Steve Getzwiller and published by Ray Manley Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color photographs accompanied by descriptions of styles, locations and histories of Navajo rugs.

Author : Noel Bennett
Publisher : Interweave
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Weaving Way written by Noel Bennett and published by Interweave. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Roseann Sandoval Willink
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weaving a World written by Roseann Sandoval Willink and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles a West Bengali caste specializing in producing painted narrative scrolls and performing songs to accompany their unrolling.