Vintage Navajo Rug Pillow Weaving
Beautiful and early Navajo weaving.
Good condition though there's several small spots. - see pictures.
It could easily be stitched up.
Measures: 19 x 16 inches approximately.
Comes from smoke-free household
On Jul-07-21 at 21:24:03 PDT, seller added the following information:
I made a mistake in the description.
The line "it could easily be stitched up" applies to my other pillow listing, not to this one.
This pillow has no issues with it.
c. 1980s Navajo Crystal Storm Pattern Rug, 65.25" x 38.5"
Very good condition, with very minor spotting, and a small area of moth bite near the center. The warp count is 10, and the weft count is 32, per inch.
Acquired from a private collection in Arizona. The owner purchased this item at a shop New Mexico while traveling in the early 1990s
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Please reference item T92017A-0620-001.
Crystal, New
Mexico was the site of the trading post owned by J.B. Moore from
1897-1911. Moore was a visionary trader
who exercised enormous influence over early Navajo rug design. Perhaps his most
important innovation was to introduce weavers in his region to Oriental rug
patterns. Motifs probably derived from oriental rugs include repeated hook
shapes (often called latch hooks), the waterbug shaped like an X with a bar
through the middle and, in a small number of weavings, rosettes. An even more
lasting and fundamental influence was the concept of a large central motif in
one, two or three parts that covers almost all of the ground between the
borders. Even the concept of the border itself, usually in two or three layers
with at least one in a geometric pattern, is probably traceable to oriental
carpet design. Though introduced in the region around Crystal, these motifs and
ideas quickly spread to other areas of the Reservation and are found on many
rugs woven throughout the past century. One of the most popular patterns that
likely resulted from Moore’s work at Crystal was the Storm Pattern. This design
is generally defined as a central rectangle connected by zig-zag lines to
smaller rectangles in each corner. The Storm Pattern often is said to have
symbolic meaning: the zig-zags are lightning, the corner rectangles are the
four sacred mountains of the Navajo or the four directions or the four winds,
etc. The Storm Pattern’s precise origin is uncertain; one story suggests it was
developed by a trader on the western side of the Reservation but the weavers at
Crystal developed this concept into one of the most popular and lasting of all
Navajo rug patterns.
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