Edith Simonson


Home Sponsor an Alpaca Our Goals Alpaca Facts FAQs Mission Statement Navajo/Hopi Weaver Application Alpaca Rancher/Donor Application Meet the Weavers Event Schedule Please send donations to: Alpacas for Natives 4395 Sacred Peaks Trail Flagstaff, AZ 86004 For tax deductible donations of animals or breedings, please contact info@alpacasfornatives.com Alpacas for Natives is a division of Read Aloud International	Edith Simonson Navajo weaver Edith Simonson prepares to shear a sheep in her corral in Hardrock, Arizona. Image courtesy of TricksterFilms, LLC & Nancy Schiesari. Edith Simonson has been featured in the recent film, "Weaving Worlds," directed by Bennie Klain and produced in part by TricksterFilms, LLC. Edith says in the movie that "If you want something to be done, don’t just sit there and think that somebody else is going to do it for you. It’s got to be you. That’s self-sufficiency." Her niece Nicole Horseherder says that "We’re rediscovering wool and the processing. We’re relearning, reeducating ourselves and finding new meaning in this place that we live using the old knowledge, the old wisdom from my grandmother’s day." Edith, a Diné woolgrower, hand-processor, and weaver lives in Hardrock close to other members of her family that raise sheep and other livestock. Her family has been raising livestock for generations. Edith has 51 years of weaving experience, weaving since she was a child, and she is a weaver from Big Mountain like her mother, Alice Nez. Her works are sold at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, and other markets in Phoenix, AZ. We await her first major project in alpaca, a traditional two piece dress. To contact Edith about her work: Edith Simonson PO Box 524 Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039	Subscribe to our newsletter! Enter email address below:
		Kathryn Gerhard and Edith Simonson, Sheep is Life 2011 Edith Simonson, handspun churro lambswool Crystal design blanket, with water and plant motifs, 35 x 25.25 in., grey, black, white, red/brown, ochre.