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My team and myself are here to help you find the best information possible about rugs. Rug should be your one-stop source for all information regarding rugs or carpets. Rug's mission is to give you information about rug facts and figures so that you can make informed buying decisions. Medicine Man Gallery specializes Navajo rugs & Navajo blankets. You can divide Navajo rugs & blankets into four periods: Classic Period from 1650-1868 to Late Classic Period from 1865-1880 to Transitional Period between 1868-1895 and Rug Period from 1895-Present.

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From the 1880s through the 1930s, reservation traders were the Navajos’ primary contact with the outside world. As such, they also were the weavers’ primary-or even sole-customers. Therefore traders exercised significant influence on weavings simply by paying more for the designs, sizes, colors, and qualities they wanted. Of course, trader’s choices were driven by what they thought they could sell to their off-reservation customers, but they also were guided by their own aesthetic sensibilities. As a result, distinctive styles of rugs emerged around several trading posts in the first years of the twentieth century. Such combinations of pattern and color are known as Regional Styles and are typically named after the trading post that encouraged their production.

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It's a textile made for tourists in Guatemala and southern Mexico. It can be cut in the places where warps aren’t woven. It is genuine Navajo and a variant the Storm Pattern. It is not in my possession, but a rug of this quality should be around $100 per square feet. This is a double twill saddle blanket. These blankets require skill in weaving, and they don't always get the value they deserve. The auction value is $350-$600 and the retail price is $750-$800. Two Grey Hills rug purchased at Toadlena Trading, 1984. I decided to spend more and buy a rug made by a master weaver. I sadly lost the original information on the weaver years ago when I packed up the rug. Is there a way to locate the weaver by looking at the design, etc. Any help would be most appreciated.

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Mexican looms have multiple pieces of warp that are fringed at their ends. They are horizontally oriented. If fringed ends are seen, it's likely you're looking at a Mexican-made rug. They have individual warp strings, as opposed to a Navajo Navajo rug with one continuous warp. This rule does not always work. Some early Navajo "Germantown” weavings may have contained fringe.

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The weavers around Two Grey Hills developed very complex geometric patterns, usually based on a large, hooked central diamond with multiple geometric borders. They also were known for very finely spun wool of small diameter which they used to make very thin, dense, and tightly woven rugs that are certainly the greatest technical achievements in the history of Navajo rug making. Many of the women who weave for nearby Taodlena Trading Post carry on this tradition of quality. The most finely woven rugs are often called tapestry rugs. Beginning in the 1920s, weavers and traders developed several new regional styles based on a revival of early banded patterns and the predominant use of vegetal dyes.

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To aid in Navajo rug ID, there are certain ones that can be identified by their distinctive colors, others by the bands of color and the designs within those bands, and certain others by their distinctive designs. The Ganadoand Klagetoh tend to have simpler designs than the similar Two Grey Hills, and Burntwater rugs. Ganado rugs always have a red background. The distinctivered color is often called a ‘Ganado Red.’ The design, based on a centraldiamond or two, will be in black, white, and grey in the center of the field.

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