Art lesson, Navajo, weaving, yarn

1. Navajo Weavings

2. Where did Navajo people come from?
• Southwestern United States
• Western New Mexico, southern Utah and
northern Arizona.

3. How did the Native Americans make
Weavings?
• How did they make yarn?
• Where did yarn come from?

4. Story of Mae Beth
• Mae Beth used
sheers to cut wool off
the sheep.

5. Mae Beth cleaned the wool
• Mae Beth cleaned the
wool with her hands.

6. Cleaning wool
• These are the carding combs that Mae Beth
used to clean the wool.

7. Spinning wool
• This is the spindle that
Mae Beth used to
spin, yarn, and fiber the
wool.

8. Dry the wool
• The sun dries the
wool.

9. Dye the wool
• These are the plants that are used to dye the
wool that came from the sheep that Mae Beth
sheared.

10. Dye the wool
• This the fire and
wash tub that boiled
the water and dyed
the wool that came
from the sheep that
Mae Beth sheared.

11. Loom
• This is the loom that
Mae Beth used to
create the rug.

12. Weaving
• This is the precious
Navajo rug that Mae
Beth made from the
wool that came from
the sheep that Mae
Beth sheared.

13. Home
• This is Mae
Beth’s home
where she
creates
weavings.

14. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ByYj5G4Hc
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtKnvc_9
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15. Objectives
• The students will be able to understand the
process of weaving used by the Navajo
Indians.
• Students will be able to recognize patterns in
pictures of rugs made by different tribes.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding
of basic weaving techniques by making a
weaving using yarn.