NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – 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. Tonita ...

On a warm Saturday in late February, Elsie Bia was outdoors in Sonoita, hard at work at her loom. A basket of woolen yarns was at her feet, dyed in the rich earth colors of Dinétah, the Navajo ...

Way in the distant past, Spider Woman and Spider Man gave the Navajos the gift of weaving. Spun out of the oral tradition, this story tries to account for the Navajos’ uncanny ability to make bold and ...

Barbara Ornelas is a fifth-generation Navajo weaver whose Two Grey Hills-style rugs and tapesteries are among the works sought by collectors. Ornelas, 52, grew up at the Two Grey Hills Trading Post in ...

The Diné (aka Navajo) people have been using their weaving as trade goods at least since European contact, and probably long before. They’ve never shied from adopting innovation: churro sheep from the ...

In June 2023, as part of his material research for an exhibition at, Diné (Navajo) artist Eric-Paul Riege visited Brown’s ...

NMAI copy 39088019787472 signed by the authors. "From the mid-17th century to the present day, herding sheep, carding wool, spinning yarn, dyeing with native plants, and weaving on iconic upright ...

LESSONS. COULD START AS SOON AS NEXT SCHOOL YEAR. SHE BECAME AN ONLINE SENSATION WITH A VIDEO OF HER SKATEBOARDING IN HER NATIVE REGALIA. BUT NAOMI GLASSES IS ALSO A WELL-KNOWN NAVAJO WEAVER. SASHA ...

Textile as cultural text : contemporary Navajo weaving as autoethnographic practice / Jennifer McLerran -- "It's up to you" : individuality, community and cosmopolitanism in Navajo weaving / Janet ...

An indigo snake crawls across a red tapestry. The tapestry is edged with blue at the top and bottom and features an undulating line of the same color that appears to slither across the top quarter.

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. 27,650 people played the ...