We have been privileged to know and work with Ella for over 50 years. She was a dear friend and an artist whose work inspired many. Her quick smile and wonderful laugh immediately brought sunshine to wherever she was.

One of our favorite weavers over the years was Ella Rose Perry from St. Michael’s, Arizona. She only lived there part of the time. She was a teaching assistant at the Crystal Boarding School up on Narbona Pass near the old J.B. Moore Crystal Trading Post. In the summer, she often lived with her sheep in a summer hogan in the Lukachukai mountains.

Beginning in the 1970s and continuing until just a few years ago, we had the pleasure of working with a group of sisters from Fort Defiance. Until the 1980s, they spent their summers in the Lukachuki Mountains near Narbona Pass (Crystal, NM) with their sheep.