Paintings of Time and Place

Navajo Style Handwoven pillow

Another beautiful handwoven pillow woven in the Navajo tapestry technique.  Only $110.00 USD plus $10 shipping and handling.

Navajo style woven pillow, Geometry 2

Another pillow in the Geometry 2 series.  Same pillow, different colors.

Colors can be customized to fit your decor.

Geometry 2, Handwoven in wool and/or wool/mohair, 20" X 20", button back, $110 USD plus $10 shipping and handling

Navajo Style Handwoven Pillow--Geometry 2

Never say never.  Never thought I would be weaving pillows for retail again, but......that's the way life goes.  When one has a spiritual connection with a culture and its art, magic happens and once again the connection strengthens.  So it is with the ways of the Navajo. 

I feel that connection when I weave and once again I have been weaving, this time for the Museum gift shops in Santa Fe, especially for the new Historic Museum on the historic Santa Fe Plaza.

Navajo style handwovenpillow with leather side panels. Button back. Wool and/or wool/mohair. 20" X 20"

$110.00 USD plus $10 shipping and handling

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Navajo Weaving Again

Over 20 years ago I learned Navajo weaving from a Navajo woman who traveled from her Arizona reservation to teach a group of Anglos the ins and outs of her beautiful art.  It was not easy.  I struggled with setting up the warp, making the turns neat and straight, learning how to make the diamond, etc.  More than once an end popped out where it shouldn't.  I forgot to do the Navajo selvedge at the turns; my design was askew,  but I continued to work at this wonderful art with a passion that has endured for all these years.  I still feel the spirit of centuries in the yarn as it passes through my fingers and into the warp.  It is still a passion and a part of my soul.

Once again I have returned to Navajo weaving as a part of the things that I do in the art world.  It takes me to another place and space somewhere in my fingers, my mind, and someplace beyond.  It is a connection with another culture and with the people of that culture--a place and space to be treasured.