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This is from an interview done with Irvin.  The interviewer gave Irvin the chance to correct and add to the original interview.     Irvin:  “I started when I was 10 years old. My dad showed me how to carry a design.  He didn’t draw pictures. He didn’t have sketches when he did his weaving, and he didn’t take pictures of his weavings to document what he had woven. So I had no source of design other than verbal instruction from my father. That led me to look into Navajo books because I could not find any books on Hispanic weaving. There was very little...

      Describing where we live is a little easier now that I have woven a piece about it. I’ve thought this place was beautiful from the first time Irvin took me to this little valley.  And I think it’s important to put some perspective on our location because it seems so ingrained in everything we do.  And it seems like a really good place to start this blog from. So we live in a narrow little valley.  It looks like this on Google earth.      La Centinela is a narrow valley between two ridges.  La Centinela means, “the sentinel”, and...

So we thought we’d take on blogging about what we do here at Centinela Traditional Arts.  There are a few of us here who can post, all of us with different points of view and expertise.  So we have a lot to say!  We like to think that what we do here matters to more than just us.  And we know that what we do here is more than a little mysterious to most people.  We firmly believe that your understanding more about our tradition, our process, and our materials, the more you’ll enjoy the beautiful work produced and sold...