Childhood memories came flooding back to Marlene Stevenson during last week’s Navajo rug weaving workshop at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Stevenson, who lives in Mission and works at ...

CLAREMORE, Okla. — Shepherd’s Cross in Claremore is handing down the art of Navajo weaving. As students learn how to weave a Navajo rug, they also learn the history behind it. “We’re losing a lot of ...

According to Navajo oral tradition, two holy people — Spider Woman and Spider Man — introduced weaving to the Navajo people. Spider Man constructed the first loom, comprised of sunshine, lightning and ...

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 rug looked almost plain, a furry, off-white blotch in a room otherwise filled with richly colored pieces. The intricate patterns of the dozens of other rugs in the fall auction at the Smoki Museum ...