Alice Kagawa Parrott, a well-known weaver and Santa Fe resident since 1956, died Friday at her Canyon Road home. She was 80.

A nephew, Paul Kagawa, said she had contracted pneumonia about a month ago and never recovered.

She operated one of Santa Fe's earliest craft shops, The Market, located on Palace Avenue adjacent to The Shed restaurant. She also designed the original Santa Fe Opera usher's uniforms and was an active member of the Acequia Madre ditch association.

Her achievements as a textile artist received acclaim in features that appeared in Life and Smithsonian magazines and the book Santa Fe Originals: Women of Distinction.

During her career, she was the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant and an American Craft Council Fellowship. She received commissions for massive installations in public buildings, and her works are included in a number of museum collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Norway.

She was the subject of one-woman shows in such venues as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York.

A 1962 New York Times article began: "It takes thousands of marigold blossoms, black walnuts, onion skins, peach leaves and small bugs to achieve some of the colors in the hand-woven wall hangings, rugs, blankets and pillow covers that now hang in the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. It is from these seemingly unusual sources that Alice Kagawa Parrott, a Hawaiian-born weaver who lives in Santa Fe, N.M., makes many of her dyes."

She was born in Honolulu on Feb. 12, 1929, to Japanese American parents who had immigrated from Hiroshima in the early 1920s, according to an interview she gave for a Smithsonian Institution oral history project.

In 1954, after graduating from the University of Hawaii, she came to the U.S. mainland to attend the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She moved to Albuquerque to teach ceramics and weaving at The University of New Mexico.

In 1956, she married Allen Parrott and moved to Canyon Road in Santa Fe.

An article that year in The New Mexican about the first shop that the couple opened, on Canyon Road, said "Allen and Alice co-operate in taking raw wool, washing and carding it, dyeing it with natural vegetable dyes, spinning it on an old-fashioned spinning wheel and then weaving the handmade yarn into rugs, blankets, placemats, scarves and what-have-yous."

The first ushers at the Santa Fe Opera wore serapes created by Parrott in an eye-popping yellow-green, orange and hot-pink color scheme. These were worn for nearly 30 years.

Louise Lechner, one of the weavers who created new ushers' serapes in 2006 that were inspired by the originals, in an interview with The New Mexican recalled visits to Parrott's shop on Palace Avenue. "We all knew her," Lechner said. "We'd always go down and see what she was doing. She put her weaving on everything — ties, Kleenex covers. ... She was the weaver in Santa Fe."

A statement issued by a family said, "Alice's warmth and generosity — not to mention the many magnificent meals she hosted — drew countless friends and admirers, as varied as her artistic influences, which she once listed as her Hawaiian roots, her Japanese heritage, her Cranbrook experiences, and traditional Native American, Spanish Colonial, Mexican and Guatemalan crafts."

She is survived by her son, Timothy Parrott of Las Vegas, N.M., and her brother, Wallace Kenso Kagawa of Honolulu. She was preceded in death by her husband, Allen Morgan Parrott, and her son, Ben Parrott.

No plans for services have been announced.