Gilbert Maxwell, a Farmington, New Mexico trader, wrote the first book I read on Navajo weaving. Not only was he a trader, but he and his wife were avid collectors, and he was constantly searching for more information about the history of Navajo weaving.

Sallie Lippincott and her husband, Bill Wagner, purchased the Wide Ruins Trading Post in the 1930s when she was only 28. They were the first traders on the reservation who required their weavers to use vegetal dyes.

One day, right after the Navajo Nation had been re-opened as the pandemic eased, a lovely woman walked into the gallery with her daughter. She was wearing a long, ankle-length dress, a sweater, and a mask. Wrapped in a cloth, she had what was obviously a weaving.