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 ...

Marilyn Greaves’ Fair Oaks home is filled with Navajo items that she has collected or made. One of her larger pieces is this Two Grey Hills-inspired rug in her living room. This weekend, she will ...

Today's topic is Native American rugs, but there is a pressing question to be answered first: What is the difference between a rug and a carpet? Anyone? Anyone? I use them interchangeably, but they ...

For centuries, the lives of Navajo people have been intertwined with livestock - specifically, one particular breed of sheep they've relied on for meat and wool. The tribe is well known for weaving ...

Fifth-generation weavers Ornelas and Pete (Spider Woman’s Children) offer experienced weavers inspiring instruction in the art of creating Navajo rugs. They first relate the craft’s origin story: the ...

Many of the totemic Native American crafts of the Southwest are so familiar as to be almost clichéd, ubiquitously hawked as they are, from the counters of the cheesiest gas-and-Slurpee pit stops to ...

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 ...

Rugs have always represented both beauty and function for the Diné. Now a collection on exhibit through Jan. 31 at the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville also showcases their role in ...

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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 ...