Joel Foster is a Multimedia Journalist at KGUN9.
A constant bumping sound fills the room at Grandma’s Spinning Wheel on the east side. At first, it may sound chaotic, but for Navajo weaving master teacher Lynda Teller Peete , it’s the sound of comfort.“When you are weaving, you use a comb and you beat on it,” Peete explained of the sound. “In this class, it may sound like a racket because they are new students and don’t have a rhythm yet.
The workshops offer more than technical lessons—they reconnect participants with their heritage. “When we get our students, they always say, ‘My grandmother or my great-grandmother was the last person to weave,’” Ornelas shared. “From that generation on, they’ve lost their linkages.”The journey that brought the sisters to Tucson began serendipitously, thanks to Vicky Konecky, the owner of Grandma’s Spinning Wheel.
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