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Miniature Handwoven Ganado Style Navajo Rug
Navajo Weaver: Elizabeth Begay
Bio information on this 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.

Ganado style Navajo rug by Elizabeth Begay

This miniature Ganado style Navajo rug was woven by Elizabeth Begay. She specializes in miniature weavings and larger tapestry quality (over 80 wefts per inch) weavings. Her larger pieces often utilize handspun and vegetal dyed yarn, as well as re-spun commercial yarn and they are much sought after.

Size: 5" wide x 6.5" long.

Colors: Black, white, gray, and "Ganado Red."

Perhaps the best known of all Navajo rugs, the Ganado style always features a red background. A central design element such as a single or double terraced diamond or a cross is generally always present. Terraced triangles, zigzags, and other geometric shapes occupy each corner. A black or dark outer border is usually present and is often joined with a white or light colored inner border. Juan Lorenzo Hubbell began trading with with Navajos in the late 1870's and from his trading post in Ganado he began to encourage the area's weavers to produce a higher quality weaving. For additional strength he insisted on the use of wool warp rather than a cotton string warp and he discouraged the use of bright colors, preferring the deep aniline dyed red and natural wool colors.

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Item Number: K-257
Price: $150.00
S/H: $6.40 (USPS), includes insurance.

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