There’s a Navajo Weaver coming to Frisco!
**Please note these classes are NOT held at the Frisco Native American Museum**
If there is a “man for all seasons” among contemporary Diné (Navajo), Roy Kady might be that man. Kady is a well established sheep herder and a male weaver residing in the community of Goats Spring on the outskirts of Teec Nos Pos, Arizona, and a sort of Mecca for sheep herders and Diné (Navajo) weavers. Roy was born at Shiprock Hospital, in New Mexico and raised in the small sheep-herding community of Goats Spring, AZ.,” he stresses. Some years ago, his elders declared him a Master Weaver.
Basic Navajo Weaving: The Navajo Way
April 22-24, 2019 Frisco, North Carolina Mon-Wed from 10am-5pm
This class is as much about Culture as it is about Weaving. Roy Kady is an excellent person whose gentle presence will encourage you while his extensive knowledge of these techniques helps your hands to learn what to do. Workshop Description: You will experience from start to finish – warping the loom, dressing the loom, design interpretation, ending techniques, weaving on an upright Navajo Loom
Limited to 12 Participants with advanced registration required. Tuition: $375 for 3 full days of 6 hours a day of weaving time Materials Fee Extra: $80 includes: weaving comb, batten, ending needle, 4 skeins of yarn, warping string, cotton string, masking tape Navajo Upright Table Top Weaving Loom, $30.00 rental, (or can be purchased for $200.00) includes dowels for your weaving
Continuing Navajo Weaving/Ending a Navajo Weaving
Thursday-Saturday, April 25-27 10am to 5pm
$50.00 a day to continue learning how to weave and end your weaving, stay as long as you wish.
Basic Wet/Dry Felting
Sunday April 28, 8am to 5pm
$100.00 Instructions on basic wet/dry felting a couple of samples, then choosing an end product to felt, i/e. a bag, a hat, a small table cover/area rug. $60.00 Materials Fee, includes bubble wrap, nylon window screen, a noodle, and resist plastic, and all the wool/natural fiber needed to make your sample felts, and your final product. There will also be some hand dyed/hand processed wool yarns available for sale, varying from $10.50 a skein of 4 oz., yarn to about $25.00 a 4 oz., skein of wool yarn that the instructor raises and hand processes himself.
Contact and Lodging Information
Lodging is available on site, dorm style – community meals (if desired) reasonable rates! Contact Susan Myers at Living the Dream Retreat via email at smyersfla@yahoo.com or call 410-463-9574 for registration and accommodation details.