With Laurie in the Southwestern USA you will:
*** meet weavers and traders on both the Navajo and Hopi Reservations
*** visit weaving cooperatives and the world famous Hubbell Trading Post Rug Auction
*** visit a museum for behind the scenes tour of historical textiles
*** learn about local weaving and customs from our tour leader anthropologist and author Dr Laurie Weber
*** see more Southwestern weavings than you ever knew existed!!!
*** September is an ideal time weather-wise to visit this area
*** contact us for a more detailed day to day itinerary
*** If you love meeting weavers, looking at textiles, learning about textiles, and collecting textiles,
this is the trip is for you!
Laurie has been with us three times in Guatemala. We traveled together to Nebaj, so I know from experience she is a wonderful travel companion. Not to mention know more about southwestern textiles than just about anybody !!
Laurie is a respected anthropologist specializing in the weaving traditions of the American Southwest. She has studied Southwestern textiles at museums throughout the United States and has worked with many contemporary Navajo, Hopi, and Rio Grande Hispanic weavers.
Laurie wrote Collecting the Weaver's Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles, published by the Peabody Museum and co-edited Beyond Cloth and Cordage: Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas. She lives in Colorado, where she works as a private textile consultant.
this is the trip is for you!
Laurie has been with us three times in Guatemala. We traveled together to Nebaj, so I know from experience she is a wonderful travel companion. Not to mention know more about southwestern textiles than just about anybody !!Laurie is a respected anthropologist specializing in the weaving traditions of the American Southwest. She has studied Southwestern textiles at museums throughout the United States and has worked with many contemporary Navajo, Hopi, and Rio Grande Hispanic weavers.
Laurie wrote Collecting the Weaver's Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles, published by the Peabody Museum and co-edited Beyond Cloth and Cordage: Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas. She lives in Colorado, where she works as a private textile consultant.
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