The Magic Weaver Of Rugs

Two women from a starving native american tribe go to the spider woman for help and learn to build looms dye wool and weave with their souls they return home teach their tribe to weave and begin to make money realizing the value of their skills this story includes a dramatic explanation of the origin of navajo rugs and the skills of their weavers.

The magic weaver of rugs.

A master weaver is someone who invents new designs new techniques new ways of putting colors together and he will weave only 15 to 20 rugs in a lifetime. The magic weaver of rugs. Lisa desimini when two navajo women pray for help for their cold and hungry people spider woman teaches them how to weave. The magic weaver of rugs.

A tale of the navajo has 1 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. A tale of the navajo. The magic weaver of rugs by jerrie oughton lisa desimini kirkus reviews. Then spider woman helped the women make dyes from leaves roots and berries.

Some of the bigger rugs can take more. The unsourced tale tells how two women concerned for their cold and hungry people since even when winter had come and gone it stayed winter in their hearts because the white wolf of fear crept among them encounter spider woman who pulls them into her land near the sky makes a giant loom and shows them how to. A second navajo myth from the team that collaborated on how the stars fell into the sky 1992. The rugs that the people weave are not especially navajo but rather generic striped blankets.

Finally she taught them to weave the yarn into a rug using the loom. A tale of the navajo jerrie oughton author lisa desimini author jerrie cughten author houghton mifflin harcourt hmh 16 32p isbn 978 0 395 66140 6 more by and. The weavers who don t know a thing about cloth or dyeing are wearing brightly colored post conquest skirts and blouses. The magic weaver of rugs.

She told the women how to dye the yarn. A tale of the navajo by jerrie oughton lisa desimini illustrator jerrie cughten starting at 1 49. And the colors while attractive do not reflect the southwestern landscape. Get this from a library.

The unsourced tale tells how two women concerned for their cold and hungry people since even when winter had come and gone it stayed winter in their hearts because the white wolf of fear crept among them encounter spider woman who pulls them into her land near the sky makes a giant loom and shows them how to prepare wool gather colors from all creation and weave with reverence as well as skill weave with your very souls and be sure to bind each end of the rug carefully.