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Award of Excellence in Textiles or Weavings
~ $300 ~ Courtesy of Cele Peterson's ~
Photos by Jannelle Weakly
"Vegetal Crystal"
by Charlene Laughing, Navajo
Artist Bio
Description: Crystal style wool rug with natural and commercial dyes. The green, yellow, browns and oranges are vegetal dyes.
About this Award: Awarded to acknowledge excellence in craftsmanship in all forms of weaving. Baskets, rugs and other fiber arts are eligible.
Jurors' Comments:
Rex Arrowsmith: This is a very beautiful Crystal rug. It has natural as well as commercial dyes, but is very well made, nice and square. Beautiful piece.
David Johns: I preferred the Teecs Nos Pos rug because its very traditional with natural dyes. It's beautiful.
Larry King: The Crystal rug shows excellent handling of the medium of commercial and natural dyes, shows the artist is a master in craftsmanship.
Charlene Laughing