His father, Hovhannes, worked as a carpenter and his mother was a rug weaver.
After selling papers on the streets of Detroit, running a bobbin machine for his father, who had become a rug weaver, and working as a bootblack, Lawson ran away from home.
In addition, Alice Pickett-Lewis, a rug weaver, will demonstrate her craft on a loom set up outside the American Folk Art Museum.
In the logo of the quarterly magazine "Yalkut Bezalel", designed by Ze'ev Raban, we see within the ornate frame cherubs with a painter and a sculptor on each side and a lamp maker and a rug weaver next to them.
Ms. Stevens, a rug weaver, has developed a labor-intensive technique of painting with richly hued threads, using a punch needle and a looped-pile form of embroidery somewhat reminiscent of rug making.
Again he remembers his Indian boyhood, when he was a good student but stripped of confidence--for what can even an educated Indian become except a rug weaver or a drunk?
A rug weaver, in fact, whose husband is a superb computer -i technician," he added, then paused again before remarking, "I ; don't know what's louder-the singing or the chanting.
Minny Yancy, a rug weaver who lives in the Appalachians, could be a Rockwell model, so definitively "American" does she look with her long gray hair, rosy cheeks and smiling eyes.