Classes and Other Events
Boot Camp Classes in Navajo Weaving Techniques in Gallup
The Navajo Weaving Techniques Boot Camp in Gallup class brings our popular four-day intensive format to Gallup’s Arts and Cultural district! Class starts on a Sunday or Wednesday and lasts for four intense days, ending with a celebration!
- Sunday, June 22, 2025 9:00 am
- Sunday, July 6, 2025 9:00 am
- Sunday, July 20, 2025 9:00 am
- Sunday, September 14, 2025 9:00 am
- Sunday, October 12, 2025 9:00 am
Continuing Hybrid Navajo Weaving Techniques: Beginning and Intermediate
Continuing Hybrid Navajo Weaving Techniques helps you develop and advance your Navajo techniques education with Diné instructors Jennie Slick and Gloria Begay. Beginning and Intermediate students will build on their knowledge to make more perfect joins, plan designs, and learn about the textile market.
- Saturday, February 8, 2025 10:00 am
- Saturday, February 15, 2025 10:00 am
Hybrid Beginning Navajo Weaving Techniques
An introductory class in Navajo weaving techniques. Class meets for three hours each week for five weeks and covers warping, basic weaving, and joining techniques. May be repeated. Instruction provided by two Diné instructors.
- Saturday, January 18, 2025 9:00 am
Join a Class Wait List
If the class you’d like to take is full, we’d be glad to have you join the waiting list! If an opening occurs, we’ll contact everyone on the list for that event, and the first person who says “yes” will get the seat.
Sign up for as many lists as you’d like. It’s free, and we really appreciate our students who can join us with less notice. It helps us to be flexible and responsive.
Navajo Weaving Techniques Boot Camp in Steamboat Springs
Navajo Weaving Techniques Boot Camp in Steamboat Springs Essentials
Navajo Weaving Techniques Boot Camp in Steamboat Springs Essentials - Tuition for the class is $675 and includes the use of a loom and tools for the course duration.
- You may also bring your loom subject to space limitations.
- You will warp the loom on the first day of class.
- We will supply the yarns and other equipment that you’ll need, and you’ll get a digital copy of our textbook.
- That’s right. You can try this for four days and only invest your tuition.
- We’ll let you buy all the equipment you want, but you don’t have to.
- We can’t guarantee that you’ll love weaving the Navajo way, but we can guarantee that you’ll gain new insights into Navajo textiles.
- Monday, May 19, 2025 9:00 am
Navajo Weaving Techniques Class at Weaving in Beauty (In-Person Seven Day Class)
Our week-long weaving class is a six-day total immersion into weaving and modern Navajo life in and near the Navajo Nation at our store in the diverse and artistically vibrant Gallup, New Mexico community.
- Sunday, May 4, 2025 9:00 am
- Sunday, June 8, 2025 9:00 am
- Sunday, August 31, 2025 9:00 am
- Sunday, September 28, 2025 9:00 am
Sash Belt Weaving with Oraña Begay
Yes! Oraña Begay will be teaching a sash belt class at our Gallup store! The class will be held on Sunday afternoons, April 6th, 13th, and 27th, from 11 AM to 4 PM.
The Gallup Socker and Allied Sports League: A Fiberholic Chatting Support Group
Hey, fiber enthusiasts! Would you like to join some like-minded knitters for two hours of knitting, chatting, and having fun on Tuesday and Thursday evenings? Of course, you would! The Gallup Socker and Allied Sports League invites you to tune in via Zoom and work on your favorite project. It’s not a class, but your fellow participants are happy to answer questions, recommend references, and perhaps recommend a class that will help you progress. No by-laws, no officers, no gossip, and no politics! They are just a great group of fiber friends. Join regularly, or check in when you can.
How to join? Put the free product in your cart, and check out. You’ll get a “ticket” for the Zoom meetings until the end of 2025. Such a deal!