Season 2, Episode 5 (Episode 31)

Navajo Weaving: An Interview with Dr Kathy M’Closkey (4 March 2021)

  • Dr Kathy M’Closkey
  • A Navajo woman weaving, likely taken between 1921-31, https://www.crowcanyon.org/educationproducts/peoples_mesa_verde/images/N338_navajo_weaving.asp
  • Navajo woman weaving, Arizona, 1985, Sue Bennet, photographer, from Northern Arizona University
  • “Wearing Blanket,” 1860-70, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • “Yeibichai Dance Team” (detail), c. 1925, from the collection of Rebecca and Jean-Paul Valette
  • “Navajo Blanket,” c. 1900, from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science


  • Kathy’s own weaving — she wears a jacket she wove in the 1980s, inspired by African strip weaving
  • Article about Kathy’s exhibition “First Nations – Fine Weavers”


  • Piece from Kathy’s show “Fields & Flowers: Fabric Landscapes of Prince Edward Island,” mat of hooked yarn, designed by Joe Smith, c. 1945, from the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation 

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