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Authentic Hand-woven Navajo Storm Pattern Rug
Navajo Weaver: Mary Tapin
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Each Navajo rug from Bair's Indian Trading Company is hand-woven of 100% wool yarn on traditional upright looms by members of the Navajo Nation. Materials range from hand-carded, handspun, and natural color or vegetal dyed wool, to commercially cleaned, carded, spun, and dyed wool. Miniature Navajo rugs are likewise hand-woven of 100% wool that is generally respun commercial yarn. They are woven in the same manner as the full sized rugs and most are of tapestry quality (over 80 wefts per inch). All Navajo weavings offered for sale on our site have been woven by contemporary weavers in regional and non-regional styles. They have intact edging and selvage cords and corner tassles, and are without stains, fading, holes, or insect damage.

Storm style Navajo rug weaving.
Size: 27.5 x 38.5
Colors: Black, white, gray.
9 warps/inch. 34 wefts/inch.
This weaving has a "Spirit Line" or "Weaver's Pathway."

Storm pattern rug by Navajo weaver Mary Tapin

This piece has a heavy enough weave to provide years of wear on the floor.

A Storm pattern rug was first pictured in a color catalog produced and distributed in 1911, by J.B. Moore of the Crystal Trading Post in New Mexico. In the catalog he represented these weavings as being "legendary designs embodying a portion of the Navajo mythology." Other accounts of the style have it that the design may have appeared on flour sacks or the tags of the sacks in the Western Reservation area, possibly around Flagstaff, Arizona or that a trader at Tuba City or Tonalea, Arizona or at the Red Lake Trading Post may have developed it around the turn of the 20th century. Whatever the origin, the design has remained a very popular one and weavers attribute meanings to the various design elements inherent to this pattern.

Close-up view of the Storm style Navajo rug weaving by Mary Tapin

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Item Number: F-133
Price: $600.00
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