Master Diné Weaver
Cider Press
Rope Bridle
Kokopelli Petroglyph
Mark Winter
Master Diné WeaverThis woman’s craft as a weaver was elevated and fostered and advocated for by Mark Winter at the Toadlena Trading Post in Two Grey Hills, New Mexico… giving her an income and enabling her daughter and her daughter’s daughter to be weavers, as well. Diné means “the people” in Navajo… it’s what they call themselves. She taught me to say, “Ahéhee’” which means, thank you.
Cider Press
Rope Bridle
Kokopelli Petroglyph
Virginia Deal, 88, of Toadlena, a master weaver, passed from this life on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in Shiprock, New Mexico.Back when Indian weaving first splashed earth tones on New York's gaudy art scene, a rug trader visited Virginia Deal's loom in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation and made her an offer."How much for this rug?" he asked her.Virginia pondered. She had learned her craft from Daisy Taugelchee, the Picasso of Navajo weavers. Virginia's rugs were among the finest in the Two Grey Hills region, where the reservation's best textiles had been woven for centuries. Her threads were as fine as silk, her designs startlingly intricate.But it wasn't difficult to put a price on her rug. "A truck," she told the trader.A week later, a new pickup arrived at her hogan. Her rug went East.https://toadlenatradingpost.com/Toadlena_Trading_Post/News_Articles/REWEAVING_CULTURE_S_FABRIC/
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