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Navajo Weaving: Art, History, Practice with Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas, Part I

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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The Role of Weavers

"Spider Woman and Spider Man, who made all the tools and looms, had set out some values for our weavers to follow," she says. "Some of them are akin to like taboos, like you can't weave at night or in a thunderstorm ... You have to respect that." She continues: "So I think that's how Spiderwoman meant it to be when she was tasked with her to weave a map of the universe"

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