Navajo Rug Bayeta

This is the largest american indian reservation in the country some 16 million acres with more than 350 000 navajos.
Navajo rug bayeta. Just received my textile identification from mary through order section on her website. Many of the navajo rugs for sale on our site including many of the new pieces have literally hung in museums. With the arrival of the railroad in the early 1880s another machine produced yarn came into use in navajo weaving. Whether the rug you buy at nizhoni ranch gallery costs 400 dollars 4 000 dollars or 40 000 dollars always remember.
Four ply aniline dyed yarn known as germantown because the yarn was. Unique antique navajo rugs from nizhoni ranch gallery all nizhoni antique navajo rugs are in great condition ready to use and enhance the beauty of your home. These are not merely navajo rugs. Historic items are cleaned and professionally restored.
But the navajo didn t always make rugs traditionally they produced blankets for wearing. From the inception of weavi. Check out our navajo rug clinic site email or call at 602 370 2875. You did a beautiful job on my rug.
Amazing amount of detail fascinating information and so helpful. A centuries old tradition all of our rugs are woven by navajo weavers most of whom live traditionally on the navajo reservation located across arizona new mexico and utah. Sitting high on the neck and draped around the shoulders these prestigious items commanded a respectable price even during the era because of their use of costly raveled bayeta cloth and indigo dyes. These are works of textile art to be collected and handed down accordingly.
She is obviously very knowledgeable and professional. Spanish sheep pueblo looms english baize spanish bayeta anglo american tastes mexican serapes germantown yarns and above all navajo creativity are woven into the history of navajo textiles. A certificate of authenticity is included. He seemed to overlook the fact however that now and again not often it must be confessed a navaho weaver would take a fine thread of bayeta and being desirous of making a thicker and heavier blanket than the fine thread would allow twisted two or three of them together thus giving us a two or three ply yarn of bayeta.
Blankets woven after 1868 are referred to as late classics later giving way to the transitional period of the 1880s and 1890s. Navajo weaving embodies not only the multiethnic nature of the southwest but also the dynamic creativity of navajo culture. It was actually a lucky coincidence with competition and trends shaping the market that drove the navajo into the business of home decoration. Enjoy these beautiful navajo art forms.