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Authentic, Hand-woven Revival Style Navajo Textile
Navajo Weaver: Cindy Begay
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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.

Revival pattern Navajo rug by Cindy Begay

Cindy Begay wove this Revival style Navajo weaving and it looks great in a bright room of indirect light or against a light wall.

Size: 21" x 23".

Colors: Gray, medium blue, black, white, and red.

Close-up of the central design element, a stepped diamond done in Moki pattern stripes with a simple cross inside.

Cindy Begay wove this Revival pattern Navajo rug.

Close-up of Revival pattern Navajo weaving

Warps/inch: 7
Wefts/inch: 36

Close-up of the weft detail.

The revival of earlier textile patterns continues to be an on-going process. In the late 1870's Juan Lorenzo Hubbell encouraged weavers at his trading post in Ganado, AZ to weave rugs with blanket patterns from the Classic Period (1840-1863). Hubbell had artists paint pattern samples for weavers that can still be viewed today.
J.B. Moore at the Crystal Trading Post in 1910, produced a color catalog of rug styles that is available in reprint.
In the 1920's, H.L. "Cozy McSparron and Mary Cabot Wheelwright prompted a revival with their efforts to return to the Classic Period of borderless banded rugs and revived interest in natural vegetal dyes.
In the 1990's, trader Bruce Burnham began a revival of Germantown patterns woven from replications of the yarn used in this style during the last 30 years of the 1800's. Also, weavers on their own pay tribute to classic Hubbell designs with stepped diamonds, crosses, and deep red colors as well as to other regional styles that developed at trading posts around the Navajo reservation. And Steve Getzwiller has helped revive the use of churro wool in Navajo weavings.

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Item Number: J-228
Price: $195.00
S/H: $10.90, includes insurance.

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