> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete > Reference:: Ornelas, Barbara Teller, and Lynda Teller Pete 2018. __Spider Woman’s Children: Navajo Weavers Today__. Thrums Books. > Date:: 2018 > Tags:: #warp #USA #textiles > WeftLinks:: [[Spiritual value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft sustains a connection to ancestors and traditional lands]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Navajo rugs tell a story of how the world was created by a spider, weaving a web. ### Highlights >Spider woman is the central figure of our Diyin Dine’é (Holy People). She was instructed to weave the universe. She worked beyond her capabilities, discovering talents, drawing from unknown stamina until she had woven a map of the universe and the patterns of stars in the night sky. She gave us the gift of Navajo weaving. Each weaver displays the qualities of Spider Woman—her determination, her knowledge, her skill. She is our teacher and guide and inspires weavers to keep improving. Spider Woman instilled the determination in some weavers to be fearless, to take on challenges, to not only weave rugs to provide for their families but to weave as a way to pass on knowledge, knowledge of sacred beings and animals,