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From: spacelodge@earthlink.net Hi Kathleen, On Saturday, I drove down to Sarah's hogan at Table Mesa to meet Roy there at a Navajo Spin Off. Several folks were gathering to spin yarn from fleece, to card it, etc. I was in Boulder Colorado last Monday & Tuesday where I hired the two owners of The Dye Works there to teach me cochineal dyeing. We got a lot done and I learned tons, took home over 100 shades of red dyed onto my skeins preprepared for the workshop. |
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I stayed with my friend from grad school who happens to live 3 miles from The Dye Works! He is a Lakota Medicine Guy, one of my best friends for some 30 years now as we both got our Master's in Tibetan Language at Indiana U in the early 70s. A photo is attached of very old Navajo sheep fetish stones which came from a Navajo man in Mexico via a Yaqui Medicine Man then to my Lakota Medicine Guy friend, then to me for now. These stones are kept in the pollen bag by the owner as good luck and prosperity as these are the sheep of the Four Directions, of course! They are genuine spiritual ethnographic fethishes. The bag is their home and has pollen embedded inside it. Looking SW to The Navajo Rez and Weaving In Beauty -- Indy |