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Authentic Hand-woven Burntwater Style Navajo Rug
Navajo Weaver: Cara Whitney (Navajo)
Bio information on Cara Whitney 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.

This is a Burntwater style Navajo rug weaving by Cara Whitney.

This Burntwater style rug was hand-woven by Navajo weaver Cara Whitney.

The design is stunning with a rich combination of earth tones and pastels, and the rug is beautifully made with precise symmetry.

Size: 16" x 20.5"

Colors: Among the at least 14 colors in this piece are tan, light and dark gray, moca brown, green, peach, light blue, lavendar, deep pink, brown terra cotta, light blue green, a deep teal green, a pink mauve and a mauvey brown.

This close-up captures the subtle hues in the weaving very well. Naturally, the colors in all of the rugs look much better "live and in person."

Warps/inch: 8
Wefts/inch: 34

Here is a close-up of Burntwater Navajo weaving.

The Burntwater style is among the newer ones to develop. It has evolved from the traditional Ganado, Two Grey Hills/Toadlena styles that feature bordered, geometric designs with central, terraced diamonds, but woven in the native vegetal colors. The style arose out of the Wide Ruins/Burntwater area south of Ganado, Arizona.
"Weaver Philomena Yazzie is credited with creating the first such rug in 1968, using vegetal-dyed colors. Burntwater trader Don Jacobs encouraged this innovation, and the Arizona Highways rug issue of July 1974 made it famous." Quoted portion from, A Guide to Navajo Weavings, by Kent McManis & Robert Jeffries

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Item Number: H-200
Price: $375.00
S/H: 11.90, includes insurance.

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