COMMUNITY Hat 11 by Tyrrell Tapaha
Reclaimed Black Beaver Hat Co. 6X - Navajo Open Crown.
Size 7 1/8.
Vintage Saddle Leather & Buffalo Coins.
Turkey Feather.
Tyrrell's predominate medium is Diné-style weaving, but his work encompasses the intergenerational pastoral living handed down through his grandfather, great grandmother, and relatives.
Tyrrell is an apprentice under Master Weaver Roy Kady. Tyrrell hand processes all his materials from sheep to loom. The fiber being sourced from his family's flock of Navajo churro. He uses natural/local flora as vegetal dyes for his yarn.
Tyrrell weaves with the intent of self exployration. "...culture isn't stagnant, it's living and breathin...we give ourselves to our weaving, and it gives itself to us."