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Navajo Indian Pictorial Rug   $150.004

Charming pastoral scene is woven as a tapestry by Navajo Indian artist Alice Segena. A Navajo lady is cooking out front of her hogan, she may just have come home in the bright red pick up truck. Cows and sheep graze peacefully and all is well!

Commercial yarn is nicely woven and the rug is perfectly shaped (bad photo), 14" by 15".

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Navajo Indian Pictorial Rug
Rose Myer Miniature Rug
3Rose Myer Miniature Rug   $75.00

Navajo Indian rug in miniature by Rose Myer of Lower Greasewood. Rose is well known for her framed charts showing the plants used to make dyes. Included in each one is a tiny weaving on a loom. so it was natural for Rose to make miniature tapestries for us.

The soft rose color is actually dyed with cochineal, the black is from pinon pitch, sumac and ochre.... Click for details


Miniature Navajo Indian Rug   $75.004

Navajo Indian rug in miniature by Rose Myer of Lower Greasewood. Rose is well known for her framed charts showing the plants used to make dyes. Included in each one is a tiny weaving on a loom. so it was natural for Rose to make miniature tapestries for us.

Natural soft brown native wool is the background for a deep brown dyed with wild walnut shells and a light green from yellow sweet clover.... Click for details

Miniature Navajo Indian Rug
Navajo Indian Framed Rug Sampler
3Navajo Indian Framed Rug Sampler   $85.00

The Navajo Indian weavers were encouraged to experiment with native plants and to document the recipes during the 1930s and 40s by Sally and Bill Lippincott at the Chinle Trading Post. One of the Navajo ladies was Mabel Burnside Myers, daughter of famed silversmith John Burnside. As a way to preserve the samples of plant colors, she created a dye chart with plant dyed wool connecting the plants to a small weaving loom and rug sample, under framed glass. ... Click for details

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