Navajo Crystal Rug with Valero Stars, c. 1930s 56\" x 37\"
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Navajo Crystal Rug with Valero Stars, c. 1930s 56\" x 37\":
$1075.00
Vintage Navajo Crystal Rug with Valero Stars, 56\" x 37\", c. 1930-40 This blanket is in very good condition. There is minor edge wear, which is to be expected.
The warp count is 6, and the weft count is 20 per inch.
Acquired from a private collector out of Arizona. Please reference item T3868.
Crystal,New Mexico was the site of the trading post owned by J.B. Moore from1897-1911. Moore was a visionary traderwho exercised enormous influence over early Navajo rug design. Perhaps his mostimportant innovation was to introduce weavers in his region to Oriental rugpatterns. Motifs probably derived from oriental rugs include repeated hookshapes (often called latch hooks), the waterbug shaped like an X with a barthrough the middle and, in a small number of weavings, rosettes. An even morelasting and fundamental influence was the concept of a large central motif inone, two or three parts that covers almost all of the ground between theborders. Even the concept of the border itself, usually in two or three layerswith at least one in a geometric pattern, is probably traceable to orientalcarpet design. Though introduced in the region around Crystal, these motifs andideas quickly spread to other areas of the Reservation and are found on manyrugs woven throughout the past century. One of the most popular patterns thatlikely resulted from Moore’s work at Crystal was the Storm Pattern. This designis generally defined as a central rectangle connected by zig-zag lines tosmaller rectangles in each corner. The Storm Pattern often is said to havesymbolic meaning: the zig-zags are lightning, the corner rectangles are thefour 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 wasdeveloped by a trader on the western side of the Reservation but the weavers atCrystal developed this concept into one of the most popular and lasting of allNavajo rug patterns.
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Navajo Crystal Rug with Valero Stars, c. 1930s 56\" x 37\":
$1075.00