Sep. 18—Charley Castles' infatuation with Navajo rugs took root as a child watching stories about the Wild West on television in the 1950s, and it's an appreciation he still holds deeply today.

The Diné (aka Navajo) people have been using their weaving as trade goods at least since European contact, and probably long before. They’ve never shied from adopting innovation: churro ...

Clark family’s Navajo rug auction has supported CU Museum of Natural History for more than 30 years Start unraveling the annual 100 Navajo Rugs silent auction, one of the longest-running, most ...

The Crownpoint Rug Auction got started in 1968 as a way for Navajo weavers to profit more from their hand-spun and woven textiles that were once used casually as saddle blankets, but were quickly ...

For more than a century, trading posts were integral parts of Native American life in the Southwest. These posts were stores, owned mostly by Anglos, where Native Americans exchanged woven rugs, ...

On Saturday dozens of Flagstaff residents and people from all over northern Arizona gathered in Branigar Hall at the Museum of Northern Arizona to peruse a selection of more than 300 hand-woven Navajo ...

Ursula Stilley makes repairs to a damaged Navajo rug at Oriental Rug Repair Co. Ursula Stilley and her husband, Jim Stilley, are closing their business after 38 years of repairing, cleaning and ...