Spider Weaving, Jamestown, NC
The Navajo believed that Spider Woman initially taught their ancestors how to weave their symbolic and spiritual rugs. And that makes perfect sense if you have ever watched a spider painstakingly weave each strand of an intricate web into a beautiful work of art, like the one I captured in the yard.
Karen and I debated buying a YEI-BE-CHAI rug in the Navajo Four Corners area years ago, but we were concerned about what we perceived as a flaw in one corner. Later we discovered it was a spirit line meant to allow a portion of the weaver’s soul to be released which had been woven into the art form—a beautiful belief.
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