Antique Navajo Rug Designs
Antique navajo rugs history early antique navajo rugs weaving designs and yarns changed often throughout the years due to the influence of the many cultures active in the southwest at the time.
Antique navajo rug designs. Moore who owned the trading post at crystal new mexico from 1897 1911 was another visionary trader who exercised enormous influence over early navajo rug design. The navajo also traded for dye and made their own. All styles with their distinctive patterns and colors such as burntwater chinle crystal ganado red klagetoh storm pattern teec nos pos two grey hills wide ruins and general reservation are featured. Historic items are cleaned and professionally restored.
A certificate of authenticity is included. 190826 07 antique navajo rug ganado trading post 925 00 925 00 170713 008 authentic navajo indian rug two gray hills toadlena navajo rug atributed to. The selection has been carefully chosen for quality and value and reflects our thirty years of experience in collecting navajo rugs. 1920 ganado dazzler with orange.
Antique navaho rug chevrons all original great condition. The ganado and klagetoh style rugs continue to be made to this day and are among the most popular of all navajo rug designs. Antique native american navajo rug teec nos pos red mesa 46 x 72 hand woven 900 00 excellent condition vintage fine weave navajo natural rug 33 5 x 20 5 c 1960. The intricate designs and natural colors seen in a navajo southwestern area rug is a culmination of influences from the early indian trading posts early mexican colonists and aspects of white american design culture but all these the.
Some dyes are rarer than others. Genuine antique navajo feather pictorial rug w center cross pristine condition. Rugs of hand spun navajo wool typically use a combination of aniline and natural dyes as well as natural wool tones. Early blankets are made with the use of multi ply trade wool yarn the type of trade yarn influences value.
The beautiful hand woven navajo serapes show a great amount of mexican and spanish influence. 67 x 35. Enjoy these beautiful navajo art forms. The chief s blankets so named because their beauty and value often made them accessible only to the.
Patterns in the southwestern rugs seen today are historically based in the antique navajo rugs of the past. Master weaver binaa adini biasdzaa blind man s wife 4 200 00 3 450 00 191223 10 navajo rug. Ending wednesday at 5 32pm pdt 2d 19h. A design element that appeared in navajo weaving from the late 19th century and continued until the late 1930s is the navajo whirling logs this design is recognized by anglos as a swastika and caused great controversy in the late 1930s.