Today, we are at the Southwest Traders Rendezvous and Rug Auction in Cortez, Colorado.  This annual event celebrates the traders and trading posts which have helped to develop Native American art and artisans and we are proud to be part of this group.  Later today, we’ll be holding a rug auction to benefit the Cortez Cultural Center, which is the sponsor and organizer of the event.

Yesterday was devoted to stories from and about traders, which each trader having an opportunity to do a show and tell presentation at the end of the day.  We thought you might enjoy this video of Bruce’s presentation.

Once in a while you’ll hear someone ask Bruce a question and he gets kind of a twinkle in his eye that lets you know that the answer involves a really good story and he’s about to tell it. Sometimes it takes an hour, but this one is only about a minute and fifteen seconds long. We were taking pictures of rugs for the web site and Bruce mentioned that he considered this rug a Storm Pattern variant. “Really????”, we said, and then he got the twinkle in his eye so we put the camera on the video setting….

You’ll see the rug on the gallery page in the next day or so, but contact us if you can’t wait. If anyone has one of the flour sacks that Bruce is talking about, we’d love to see it.

We’ve added five new rugs to our revamped rug gallery.  We’re still working on getting individual pages done for each of new rugs and we’re getting them added to our online store.  In the next day or so, we’ll be adding vintage rugs and new jewelry into the gallery.