After watching Caroline and her mother learn to make Navajo rugs, it is now my turn. I signed up for the class at Fiber Factory and Caroline decided to sign up a second time. Sharie Monsam teaches the class and is a great teacher  – she has a lot of patience. Learning this traditional art is not as easy as it looks. Just building the warp is a task and a half. The warp is the structure where the twine is tied and looped around the top and bottom pieces of wood and through which the weft yarn is going to be woven to create the rug. After the warp is created it is attached to the loom. So you are looking at my warp hung on the loom Fiber Factory lent me. The next step was to learn the pull shed and stick shed. If you want to know more and live in the Phoenix, Arizona area, visit Fiber Factory and sign up for the class. I would be remiss if I did not mention that Sharie is often joined by her good friend Mary Walker of Weaving in Beauty fame and soon-to-be-author of a book about Navajo weaving