This is a Navajo weaving ( Yei Design ) that came to us from the weaver and is in good shape. The wool is commercial.The name of the weaver is Bessie Yazzie. If you have any questions please send a message. Thank you
Rita Manygoats - Contemporary Navajo Two Grey Hills Rug, 27" x 20"
This weaving is in near excellent condition, with very minor curling to the corners. The wool is soft and flexible. It includes an old tag with the weaver's name. The warp count is 14, and the weft count is 48, per inch.
Acquired from a private collection in New Mexico.
Please reference item T92308-1111-026.
Two Grey Hills Navajo Indian Rugs are known as weavings in which no colored dyes were used. Instead, weavers carefully combed and spun different natural colors of yarn to yield a beautiful range of creamy whites, tans, browns, and greys. (To get a solid black color, weavers sometimes would over-dye dark brown wool with black dye.) The weavers around Two Grey Hills developed very complex geometric patterns, usually based on a large, hooked, central diamond with multiple geometric borders. They also were known for very finely spun wool of small diameter which they used to make very thin, dense, and tightly woven rugs that are certainly the greatest technical achievements in the history of Navajo rug making. Many of the women who now weave for nearby Toadlena Trading Post carry on this tradition of quality. The most finely woven rugs often are called tapestry rugs. Medicine Man Gallery specializes in old Navajo Indian rugs from Two Grey Hills, including rugs by master weavers such as Daisy Tauglechee.
Medicine Man Gallery has been in the Antique Native American art business since 1992.
We have one of the largest inventories of Antique Native American art for sale in the country, offering Navajo Rugs and Blankets, American Pueblo Pottery, Indian Baskets, Hopi Kachinas, Old Pawn Jewelry, Contemporary Native American Jewelry, and Native American Beadwork, as well as Ethnographic Art, Western Americana, Art of the West and Native American Art.
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