Spider Woman


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	Spider Woman And every woman who was wisehearted spun with her hands; and they brought that which they wove of sky-blue and purple, of scarlet and of fine white cloth. And all the women whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' fleece. (Exodus 35:25-26) "Spider Woman instructed the Navajo women how to weave on a loom which Spider Man told them how to make. The crosspoles were made of sky and earth cords, the warp sticks of sun rays, the healds of rock crystal and sheet lightning. The batten was a sun halo, white shell made the comb. There were four spindles: one a stick of zigzag lightning with a whorl of cannel coal [black jet]; one a stick of flash lightning with a whorl of turquoise; a third had a stick of sheet lightning with a whorl of abalone; a rain streamer formed the stick of the fourth spindle, and its whorl was white shell." --Epigraph to Spider Woman: A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters, by Gladys A. Reichard, first published 1934, republished by Rio Grande Press, Inc., Glorieta, NM, 1968.	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.