2025 True Heroes: Violet Lucero
THE CEDAR BEAMS of Violet Lucero’s loom stretch across a room that should be too small to hold it. Tools handmade by her father and bundles of wool yarn rest nearby. At the heart of this world of…
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Tag: Weaving
Weaving Traditions Begin with Sheep
WHETHER YOU ENJOY the cozy comfort of a wool hat or the rich colors of a traditional Navajo rug, New Mexico’s history of fiber arts starts with sheep. Visitors can learn that origin story inside the…
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Weaving Stories at the Crownpoint Rug Auction
DELBERT AUTRY POINTS TO A potential buyer from the stage at the Crownpoint Navajo Rug Auction. A young man in the crowd just bid $1,200 for a dazzling three-by-five-foot Storm Pattern weaving, but…
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Faces of the Fair: Master Weaver Rowena Mora
J ICARILLA APACHE MASTER WEAVER Rowena Mora has crafted and sold more than 200 baskets during her 37 years in the art form. That includes a brightly striped storage basket purchased by the Smithsonian…
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Emily Trujillo’s Modern Take on Weaving
AT 31 YEARS OLD, Emily Trujillo is the heir apparent to a textile legacy that began eight generations ago, when Mexico-born Diego Trujillo settled in the village of Chimayó in the mid-1600s. Over the…
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Cozy Up to Comfort at Tierra Wools
WALKING ONTO Tierra Wools’s rustic farmhouse porch is like entering an open-air art gallery. Handwoven Southwestern rugs hang from the eaves, their vibrant colors and patterns contrasting against wood…
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Macra-made in New Mexico
IN A COZY THREE-BEDROOM home in Rio Rancho, mother of two Jennifer Sandoval, 36, makes a little magic whenever she can steal a moment from her daily grind. Before dinner and after homeschooling…
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Weaving Ancestral Threads
RHIANNON GRIEGO SITS IN White Sands National Park, working the strings and pedals of her loom in time with her heartbeat. The gypsum dunes, bathed in the lambent rays of the setting sun, serve as her…
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Wrapped Up in Native Culture
WITH EVERY STITCH AND EVERY PATTERN, Jennifer Berg (Diné) weaves a little piece of Navajo culture into her work. “I want to tell the stories of my people,” she says. “I make wearable artwork that is a…
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These Baskets Carry Native History
MADE OF BIRCHBARK, THE CANOE STRETCHES 21 feet from stern to bow. A Dene (Northern Athabaskan) maker, likely from the Upper Yukon in British Columbia, Canada, crafted it around 1900—but not for…
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