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Natural wool colors are used, except the red and theblack may have some commercial dye. With this rug, the grey can be brownish oreven tan, depending upon the fleece of the sheep used. These rugs are woven of natural, undyed, hand spun wool withdesigns of white, black, and brown. These weavers card together wool fromdifferent sheep to produce subtle shades of the white, black, and brown. It is possible to find several different shades of gray, brown, and tan in thesame rug. The wool for the Two Grey Hillsrugs is often fine and may require more weaving time, making them more costly. They usually have a plain, dark border. They may also have a spiritline.
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If you need help identifying a textile, I offer that service at $20-50 per item. Please click here to send information about the textile that you’d like to know more about. The weaver would probably have called with an Eyedazzler. You may also find some who would call it a squash blossom. The banded rug on the top doesn’t really fit into any particular regional style. Some people might call it a saddle blanket or chief blanket design. The one on the bottom is woven from a book called Working with the Wool by Noel Bennett and Tiana Bighorse. Noel lived in Gallup when you lived in Church Rock and she taught weaving at the library on Thursday nights, I think. It doesn’t fit any regional description.
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The beauty of Navajo textiles is the simplicity with which they were created by the weavers. The looms are easy to erect, and can often be found under a tree trunk. The patterns were and still are plotted in the weaver’s head. It takes artistic ability and multidimensional thinking to create harmonious designs. All Navajo weavings have a meticulous, manual approach to artisanship. As is the case today, the weaver raised the sheep with his family; taking care of the flock was a family job. Early Navajo weavings were made with special wool from Churro sheep breed, known for its silky fibers. Later, as the Navajo started making rugs, other sheep types were added to their flocks.

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There will usually be 3bands of wavy lines or a solid color between one or two more complex bands,which are patterned with motifs such as squash blossoms, arrows, stars,crosses, triangles, etc. Muted earthen colors such as rust, grey, and rich brown, aswell as pastel greens, pinks, or yellow are common. This design was said to be influenced by the serape blanketsworn in New Mexico.The design is usually a simple geometric shape such as a chevron, diamond, serrate, or triangle, etc. These are either repeated throughout the rug or as a border or evencan appear in blocks set against a solid background. The design will appearquite busy and can have a combination of colors.
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Typically, the Yeis are highly stylized figures with elongated bodies, short straight legs, and heads facing the viewer. Yebechais have more human proportions, usually face sideways, and have legs bent in a dancing motion. The most common types of Yei and Yeibechai rugs feature multiple figures oriented parallel with the weft threads so that the rug appears wider than long when the figures are upright. Two distinct styles emerged in the 1920s. Those made in the area of Shiprock, New Mexico tend to have light colored backgrounds with no border, and often use brightly colored commercial yarns. Yeis and Yeibechais made in the central part of the reservation (northeastern Arizona) tend to have dark backgrounds with simple borders.
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Serapes only rarely had a slit in the middle for the head which made them ponchos. Navajo weavers made both the manta and serape styles during the eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries along with shirts, dresses, breechcloths, and sashes. These early weavings made before the 1870s are very rare, bringing tens of thousands of dollars-or more-from collectors and museums. The so-called Chief’s Blanket is a specific style of manta that went through a distinct design evolution. First Phase blankets were made from about 1800 to 1850 and consisted simply of brown (or blue) and white stripes with the top, bottom and center stripes usually being wider than the others.
