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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLAREMORE, Okla. — 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...