Diné (Navajo) Weaving DVD covers:
1) Origin and Philosopy
... Weaving is an act of creation, with each woven textile being a unique version of a universal theme.  That universal theme is Hózhó dynamic beauty and harmony...

2) Diné Aesthetics
... Through all this history, our weavers continued to integrate our cultural symbols, our distinctive aesthetic style and the our patterns of organizing space into our woven textiles...

3) Historical Periods
The Classic Period
The Transitional Period
The Modern Period
The Postmodern Period

4) Weaver Berneta Nez
... Though she is only seventeen years old at the time of this video, she has already become a traditional Diné weaver...

Diné Weaving sample videos, audio & pictures

  1. Diné Weaving DVD Photos (7 pictures)
  2. Photos of Navajo Woven Tapestries (9 pictures and infornation about each of the Tapestries)

  3. Diné Weaving Intorduction (QuickTime 7 required video clip 8 MB)

  4. Diné Weaving Philosophy (QuickTime 7 required video clip 33 MB)

  5. Diné Weaving Contemporary Weaver Bernita Nez (QuickTime 7 required video clip 36 MB)

  6. Partial Transcript of Diné Weaving

Diné Weaving
This video builds on an earlier one that Gary Witherspoon worked on in the1980s: The Children of ChangingWoman (with David Baxter, Richard Sims, Peter Blystone and the Museum of Northern Arizona), It also extends the work of Glen Peterson and Gary Witherspoon found in their book Dynamic Symmetry and Holistic Asymmetry in Navajo and Western Art and Cosmology. Contemporary weaver Bernita Nez demonstates the process of weaving as a creative art form. Music is composed and played by Gary and Johnny Witherspoon.