Navajo weavers today are carrying on a 300-year-old tradition of weaving blankets and rugs. Their unique upright loom uses a traditional weaving technique that cannot be mechanized.

There are countless stories that paint vivid pictures of the rich Navajo history in the southwest. One Navajo woman is ...

On July 17, 2025, Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy TD, Speaker of the Irish Parliament, accepted a traditional, handwoven Navajo ...

Ruby Hubbard creates works of art in the form of Navajo rugs at Hubbell Trading Post in Arizona. There's still time to see her at work. Here's how.

More important, the hotel is only a mile south of the Heard Museum, which owns, among its collection of Southwestern Native American art, 1,000 Navajo textiles, mostly rugs and blankets.

Two of the rugs in Leroux’s studio are still attached to Navajo looms. His mentor began a small, mostly brown piece, now perched on a high shelf. The other rug in progress sits on a loom about ...

A new exhibit at Colonial Williamsburg’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum will give visitors a look at blankets and rugs crafted by 19th-century Navajo artisans when it opens later this ...

The rugs are created almost exclusively as artwork now, but traditionally, they were a staple of Navajo life. They served as bed blankets, floor coverings, robes in cold weather, or two sewn ...

The Crownpoint Rug Auction got started in 1968 as a way for Navajo weavers to profit more from their hand-spun and woven textiles that were once used casually as saddle blankets, but were quickly ...

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.

Eventually he made contacts with rug dealers and began to run advertisements offering Navajo rugs. There was a particular vogue for Native-American art and folklore at that that time.