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Miniature Hand-woven Wide Ruins Style Navajo Rug
Navajo Weaver: Lula Brown
Bio information on Lula Brown and other Navajo weavers.

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.

Miniature Wide Ruins style Navajo rug by Lula Brown.

This miniature Wide Ruins style Navajo rug was woven by Lula Brown, a well-known Navajo weaver whose work is widely collected. Her husband, Herman also weaves miniature rugs and her sister, Elouise Bia is another well-known weaver of miniature rugs.

Size: 3.25", by 3 7/8".

Colors: Yellow, gray, white,dark chocolate brown and a deep terra cotta color slightly darker than captured in the image on the left.

The Wide Ruins style rug is one of the three banded patterns of Navajo rugs and it is the most complex in design and colors of the three (Chinle and Crystal are the other two banded rugs). Featuring vegetal dyed yarns in soft and somber, pastel earth tones, these rugs evolved from the Chinle style after 1938, when William and Sallie Lippincott bought the Wide Ruins Trading Post. They set a standard of quality in their trading area that persists to this day as the Wide Ruins rugs are generally the most finely woven of the three banded styles.

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Item Number: G-169
Price: $100.00
S/H: $5.40 (USPS), includes insurance.

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