about layne

Woven as a gift for Layne's shepherding teacher, Kevin Tsosie, "Pray 4 Rain" is an homage to life at sheep camp and Kevin's dedication to his ancestral ways. 

As groundwater becomes increasingly scarce due to mining operations in the desert, we look to the skies to revive our landscape and nourish our flocks.

In “Remember Me”, Layne learns an old twill count from the 1800s, taught to her by her teacher Nikyle Begay. 

This complex count challenges her to pay attention, and unearths memories of endangered guardians. Through this weaving, her mind learns how to move beyond memorization and beyond counting — finally seeing the pattern of each line in order to reveal the next sequence.

Layne again meditated on the eclipse's interplay between dark and light, and how prisms reveal our own unseen natures. 

During an episode of pink and green northern lights, Layne returned to her obsession with cubes — asking how might we represent 3 dimensions without diagonal lines? 

Learning from her Diné teachers about Spider Woman and the epicenter of weaving, Layne wove this pattern taught by her own spider woman teacher — Lynda Teller Pete (Diné). 

This wedge weave was a exercise on the power & playfulness of lightning — while pausing from the loom during spring showers to respect Diné traditions. 

Layne created this weaving during a solar eclipse, as a meditation on the exchange between darkness and light.

For this utilitarian horse cinch, Layne used both natural-dyed and acid-dyed yarns as an exploration of camouflaging and revealing. 

Layne used this piece to play with jaspes — those fine overlay lines — and how they might build on each other to create complex shapes.

An homage to the Taos ecosystem and the Taos Pueblo stewards of this place we call home. Layne gathered red willow branches near the Rio Fernando de Taos watershed and carefully observed them to choose the colors of her wool. 

Layne’s very first weaving explores her obsession with hypercubes and her curiosity about representing higher dimensional geometries in lower dimensional space.