Early Pueblo blankets and rugs were mostly made up of naturally colored fibers — brown, black, gray and tan — but the Navajo ...

Halfway between Gallup and Shiprock, on an isolated stretch of the Navajo Nation, a cluster of around 150 Diné weavers have maintained a deeply traditional way of weaving. They raise their own ...

what the Navajo call themselves, particularly horses, which were symbols of wealth and power. Most of the blankets retained the natural brown or gray color of the wool. But by midcentury ...

Clark family’s Navajo rug auction has supported CU Museum of Natural History for more than 30 years Start unraveling the annual 100 Navajo Rugs silent auction ... to collect a past-due account at the ...

Weavers often added dyes such as indigo to the wools, which came in varying shades of brown, tan, gray and white. Since Navajo of different ranks used the blankets, historians believe the “Chief ...

The current trader wasn’t buying weavings, but the post had modern Navajo rugs for sale with patterns from former trading posts like Crystal, Wide Ruins, Teec Nos Pos, Two Gray Hills and samples ...

Now, after years of planning and deliberation, two of the magnificent Navajo rug designs from the Durango Collection at Fort Lewis College are available as Pendleton blankets. I have had a ...

Over the years, the Stilleys have serviced or appraised rugs from every major Navajo rugmaking center, including names that have come to represent regional styles, including Two Grey Hills ...