Subscription: Continuing Hybrid Navajo Weaving Techniques

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Continuing Hybrid Navajo Weaving Techniques Class Description:

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.   Both beginner and intermediate students will learn how to prevent and manage problems as they arise.   Continuing Online Navajo Weaving Techniques helps beginning students with second pieces and will help beginners and intermediate students with design and yarn selection.  Each week, we will have a presentation on an outstanding weaver or style of weaving.  Assistance is available between classes.  

We are now able to offer you the chance to attend your class in person if you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.  In-person students must wear a mask at all times during class.  You can also attend class virtually.  You can combine the virtual and in-person options as needed.  You can be 100% online, 100% virtual, or any combination that works for you.  We will do our best to give virtual students a quality experience that is as close to having you in person as possible.  

Attendance in this class is $35 weekly, and you can sign up for as many sessions as you want.  You’ll receive a code that you can use to register for the sessions that you want to attend. 

You should be familiar with basic Navajo weaving and be able to warp your loom before the first class.    You can take the class multiple times if you would like to.  We limit enrollment to four students per session, so you’ll get plenty of attention.  Can’t fit this session into your schedule?  Check out our other classes! 

Pre-requisites

• You must be able to warp your own loom. 
• You should know how to weave stripes and have some experience with joins.  

What to Expect in Hybrid Online Navajo Weaving Techniques

We will meet you where you are in terms of weaving skills.  We will help develop a plan to progress in your weaving.  You may attend as many classes as you wish, and renew your subscription when your current subscription ends.  

Continuing Online Navajo Weaving Techniques Instructors: 

Gloria Begay

Gloria is on the left in the picture.  Her maternal clan is Mountain Cove, and her paternal clan is Towering House.  She is the daughter of the famous weaver Nellie Joe.  Nellie schooled all of her daughters in her exacting techniques of fine weaving and design.  Gloria’s Chief Blanket and Burntwater designs are famous.  She experiments with design, and she loves natural dyes.  

Gloria is very encouraging, and her students love her.  Her rugs and weavings are in collections all over the world.  She is continually increasing her weaving expertise and loves to learn about new yarns and dyes.  

Gloria is fluent in both Navajo and English and teaches students in both languages.   Gloria is instructing this session.  

Jennie Slick

Jennie Slick is on the left in this picture.  She is born to the Coyote Pass people and born for the Bitter Water People.  She resides in the Querino Canyon area near Sanders, Arizona.  Jennie has been teaching for over 20 years.  She has taught all over the United States, and she loves sharing her weaving knowledge.  She says, “you’re not supposed to be stingy with it.”   

Jennie is a very patient teacher, and her students come back for more classes to increase their knowledge.  She is fluent in Navajo and can teach in either Navajo or English.  Jennie will be teaching this session.