A woman has shared her shock after discovering her £1.14 colourful rug bought from a charity shop is worth a small fortune - ...

When a woman wants to retire from a long and distinguished career so she can enjoy being a grandma, that usually doesn’t qualify as big news. But when that woman is Ruby Hubbard, master weaver at ...

“The Navajo weaver often rubs a spider’s web into her hands to bless herself before beginning a weaving. A child also received the blessing of the web so that one day she may grow to be a fine weaver ...

Halfway between Gallup and Shiprock, on an isolated stretch of the Navajo Nation, a cluster of around 150 Diné weavers have maintained a deeply traditional way of weaving. They raise their own sheep, ...

The Navajo are also world-famous for the designs on their woven blankets.Navajo women own the family flocks,control the shearing of the sheep,the carding,the spinning,and dying of the thread,and the ...

COOS BAY — Northeast Arizona, land of the Navajo, is home to mother and daughter Lucy and Ellen Begay. Weaving in the Navajo culture has strong cultural values, and for Lucy and Ellen, weaving is part ...

According to Navajo oral tradition, two holy people — Spider Woman and Spider Man — introduced weaving to the Navajo people. Spider Man constructed the first loom, comprised of sunshine, lightning and ...

FAIR OAKS, Calif. – Marilyn Greaves may have been born and raised in Sacramento, but her heart belongs to Navajo country. “I’ve always loved the Southwest and all the things that go with it,” said the ...

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The Yokuts tribeswomen of central California were avid gamblers. Their favorite game was played with eight walnut-shell dice thrown on a decorated mat woven from reeds like a basket. Taking a year to ...