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Phone: (970) 247-8277

Website: http://www.toh-atin.com/

For over three centuries, the Navajo people of Arizona and Northern New Mexico have tended their sheep and worked with the wool to weave beautiful blankets and rugs.

Living on the High Plateau and surrounded by the Four Sacred Mountains, the Navajo women invoke the spirit of Spider Woman, who taught them to weave.

They carefully card and spin the wool, creating yarns that are sometimes dyed and sometimes left the natural color of the sheep.

The loom is carefully and reverently warped. The weft threads are slowly threaded between these warps and pressed together with the gentle pounding of a wooden comb. Slowly a pattern will emerge from the weaver’s mind to become a part of the tapestry.

Weaving on the upright Navajo loom is a slow process that cannot be hurried. It is not uncommon for a small Navajo rug to be on the loom for several months.