When a woman wants to retire from a long and distinguished career so she can enjoy being a grandma, that usually doesn’t qualify as big news. But when that woman is Ruby Hubbard, master weaver at ...

The chirping of birds and the rustling of leaves provided soothing background music for the first craft show at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, which hopes to inspire residents to support ...

Marilyn Greaves’ Fair Oaks home is filled with Navajo items that she has collected or made. One of her larger pieces is this Two Grey Hills-inspired rug in her living room. This weekend, she will ...

Navajo rugs--A caption accompanying a photograph in the Nov. 25 Travel section story “Weaving Through the Southwest” incorrectly identified El Rancho Hotel & Motel in Gallup, N.M., as the Hubbell ...

A Navajo rug and jewelry show is taking place in Scottsdale. The show is free, and proceeds from sales will support native weavers. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Navajo rugs, jewelry and crafts are just some of ...

Tom Sharpe On the second Friday of every month, two very different groups of people, most of them New Mexicans, get together at a school on the Navajo reservation for one of the state's most unique ...

Mae Morgan, a Navajo weaver, is one of several weavers who produces rugs for an auction that raises funds for the Museum of Natural History at CU-Boulder. Photo courtesy of Harry Jackson Clark Sr.

Many of the totemic Native American crafts of the Southwest are so familiar as to be almost clichéd, ubiquitously hawked as they are, from the counters of the cheesiest gas-and-Slurpee pit stops to ...

Today's topic is Native American rugs, but there is a pressing question to be answered first: What is the difference between a rug and a carpet? Anyone? Anyone? I use them interchangeably, but they ...

The auction begins at 4 p.m. Saturday at the museum. Rug viewing sessions will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Friday and noon to 3:45 p.m. Saturday. A portion of the proceeds raised from the event go to ...

An 800-foot pillar of red sandstone looms at the east end of Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly in the heart of the Navajo Nation. It is called Spider Rock, for Spider Woman, who taught the Navajo to weave, ...