Navajo Arts Beauty

*Traditional Art & Crafts*

This section  will concentrate on the different types of art and crafts that are made by our people in our local and in other areas of the Navajo Land.







This is a Traditional Weaving loom that the Navajo use to make their rugs. They have to use specific tools and instruments , which are most likely to be cedar for that is the most common wood that is located in the area. They use these materials to make a successful rug. Their tools are most likely made out of the same wood as they used on their looms. They are heavy so that when they pound down the wool, the sections of the rug are so tightly compacted together that it was used to carry and store water in like a bucket.



Each rug tell their own stories and of different places. Each weaver have their own style of designing their own rug. Some by there colors and different designs. There are not many weavers to this day the importance of making the demands of traditionally made rugs by Navajos are important. Here are a couple of rugs for an example of how Navajo weavers weave their rugs.

 

        Amelia Begay - Navajo Rug Weaver

Two Grey Hills  

Marina Holiday- Navajo Rug Weaver                        

                                                             Teec Nos Pos

 

        Helena Begay - Navajo Rug Weaver                              

    Tree of Life 

 

 



Shirley Lopez - Navajo Rug Weaver

                       
                                                                     Storm Pattern

 

Modern Navajo women's dress 

These days they are made out of silk and the most common is the velveteen material. They all very in different kind of materials and colors that are fancy.

 

 

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