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HÓZHÓ—A Design for Living

DINE—The People

SHINí BITIIN
The Weaver’s Pathway
Contrasting the heavy industrial machinery used in carding and spinning Germantown yarn, in Diné stories of emergence it is told of how the loom and first weaving implements were made by Spider Man, as a gift for Spider Woman, from the Sun’s halo (the batten) and White Shell (the comb). Although the means of processing their woolen yarn has changed, Germantown Renaissance artists still use the same traditional weaver’s tools. And like their great-grandmothers who kept Spider Woman’s legacy alive in brilliant new designs of beauty with Germantown yarn, today’s Germantown weavers honor her gift of eternal transformation through their own artistry and, at work’s end, by turning their thoughts to shiní bitiin, “my mind’s road,” to the next beginning.

In Beauty it is finished
It is become Beauty again

(From the closing prayer of the Navajo Blessingway Cermony)

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