Traditional Navajo Rug Designs
Commercial production of handwoven blankets and rugs has been an important element of the navajo economy.
Traditional navajo rug designs. Diyogí are textiles produced by navajo people of the four corners area of the united states navajo textiles are highly regarded and have been sought after as trade items for over 150 years. See more ideas about navajo rugs navajo rug design. The intricate designs and natural colors seen in a navajo southwestern area rug is a culmination of influences from the early indian trading posts early mexican colonists and aspects of white american design culture but all these the navajo have incorporated and made their own. Navajo rugs and blankets navajo.
Today navajo rug making is a fine art and weavers opt to work with natural or commercial dyes and traditional pictorial or a wide range of geometric designs. May 14 2013 based on traditional navajo rugs and other native motifs. And all the while those people have pined after the navajo s crafts and desired their skills. Again we cannot be too sure of some of the meanings but many navajo grandmothers will tell you that the diamond is a symbol of the dinétah or.
Patterns in the southwestern rugs seen today are historically based in the antique navajo rugs of the past. Depicting the navajo homeland. Navajo rug designs. The navajo women who became the region s weavers expanded the range of patterns beyond striped bands of color and turned the designs into today s widely recognized patterns.
The designs and patterns have inspired textile industries and modern fashion houses all over the world although the high standards of traditional navajo weaving have never truly been replicated by anyone but the originators. As one expert expresses it classic navajo serapes at their. See more ideas about cross stitch designs cross stitch navajo rugs. I would never copy a work of art but the motifs and color combinations are inspiring.
Moore who owned the trading post at crystal new mexico from 1897 1911 was another visionary trader who exercised enormous influence over early navajo rug design. The ganado and klagetoh style rugs continue to be made to this day and are among the most popular of all navajo rug designs. Aug 30 2019 motifs in dine navajo rugs that might be suitable for quilts.