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This article covers all that you need to know about Navajo rugs and their origins, weaving patterns, and processes. Doing research on Native American history will lead you to the Navajo, an ancient American tribe. They began weaving rugs and became the Navajo rugs. Rugs were associated with their cultures and traditions as well as their beliefs. The Navajos were initially limited to a small number of pieces when they began weaving. However, over time, the distinctive designs of the Navajo rugs spread all across the country. They weaved them in their vertical handloom using hand-knotted features. They are more well-known in the southwest for their distinctive weaving techniques.
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Pendleton Blankets will always be associated with Native Americans. It is most commonly associated with American Indian Trade Blankets. These wool blankets feature a variety of colors and designs that are perfect for tribes throughout the West, Midwest and South. To make the Navajo Rug Quilted Wall Hooking Pattern, take six 4 X20-inch strips of dark brown and four 4 x 4-inch squares of straight grain fabric. All pieces of the pattern can be downloaded and printed. To appreciate how remarkable these examples Navajo weaving really are, we must not forget the value of a Navajo Chief Blanket. It is amazing that blankets like these can fetch more than a quarter million dollars in certain circles.
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Perhaps his most important innovation was to introduce weavers in his region to Oriental rug patterns. Rather than copying wholesale, the Navajo filtered the new patterns through their own cultural sensibilities and personal design preferences. In the process, they drew out specific concepts and motifs, re-synthesizing them into distinctly Navajo designs. Motifs probably derived from oriental rugs include repeated hook shapes (often called “latch hooks”), the “waterbug” shaped like an “X” with a bar through the middle, the “airplane” or T-shape with rounded ends and, in a small number of weavings, rosettes. An even more lasting and fundamental influence was the concept of a large central motif in one, two or three parts that covers almost all of the ground between the borders.

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The easiest and most foolproof way to determine a fake Navajo rug is by examining the ends to see if the warps were tucked back in or if they are truly continuous. If they are tucked in, then every other warp area will have two threads as is illustrated below:

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Not far from Crystal was the Two Grey Hills trading post, known for weavings in which no dyes were used. Instead, weavers carefully combed and spun different natural colors of yarn to yield a beautiful range of creamy whites, tans, browns, and greys. (To get a solid black color, weavers sometimes would overdye dark brown wool with black dye.) 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.
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Any handmade imitation Navajo rug made in the United States would probably be woven with the firm intentions of deceiving the buyer. There would hardly be any other reason for a American non-Indian to put in the time and effort required to weave a convincing fake. Because of the economics and the work required, there are very few US made fake Navajo rugs.
