Donna Yellowhair

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Donna Yellowhair with one of her recent hand woven Rugs.

Traditional Wool Rug by Navajo Weaver Donna Yellowhair

These colors are made from dyes using natural materials found locally.

Donna Yellowhair (619661) is from Naahtee Canyon in Arizona. She learned the art of rug weaving from her grandmother and aunt as a child as she watched them. Her grandmother is 97 years old and still cards and spindles the yarn. Eight years ago Donna resumed working as a rug weaver. She buys carded yarn at the trading post, spindles it and weaves on a loom. Each rug takes about a week to weave. She creates rugs in all sizes and traditional patterns, such as the Chinle/Wide Rooms style, two Gray Hills, Ganado, Yeii-bi-chei, Storm and pictorial.

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