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Authentic, Hand-woven Pictorial Navajo Rug
Navajo Weaver: Marlene Cody
Bio information on 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.

Pictorial Navajo Rug with Weaver Photo.

Pictorial Navajo rug weaving by Marlene Cody

Pictorial style Navajo rug weaving.
Size: 20.5" wide x 17.75" high
Colors: Black, white, red, green, aqua blue, cobalt blue, turquoise blue,
terra cotta, medium brown, on a field of brown.
10 warps/inch. 38 wefts/inch.
This rug comes with a picture of the weaver.

This close-up shows more detail of the male and female figures.

Below is an image of the photo of Marlene Cody holding her weaving.

Pictorial style Navajo rug by Marlene Cody

"Weavings with pictorial elements may have first appeared as early as the 1840s. Four small birds can be seen on a wearing blanket owned by the Cheyenne chief White Antelope when he was killed at the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864. A photo dated to 1873 shows a Navajo weaver with a U.S. flag-design she had made. By the 1880s and 90s, textiles with trains, animals, people and letters from the alphabet started to appear. At first these were usually only floating design elements. But soon the pictorial pattern became the main focus of the weaving, and some featured fully developed scenes." From, A Guide to Navajo Weavings, by Kent McManis & Robert Jeffries

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Item Number: H-198
Price: $350.00
S/H: $12.50, includes insurance.

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