Storm Pattern Navajo Rugs

Moore most certainly developed promoted this style into the popular rug design it is today.
Storm pattern navajo rugs. 141217 02 navajo rug storm pattern influence 745 00 745 00 180816 59 antique navajo rug crystal storm pattern runner 4 500 00 4 500 00 200514 01 navajo rug two gray hills 0 00 0 00 140722 09 navajo rug teec nos pos 3 500 00 3 500 00 1162 01 navajo rug. With natural wool tones c. This specific design can be traced directly back to j b. The main feature of this type is the central x or h pattern found in the center of the rug.
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The rug itself can be made using any color combination and or any type of wool yarn. The navajo storm pattern rug is one of the most popular navajo rug designs that in most ways resulted from j b. The navajo storm pattern rugs is the regional design traditionally woven in the cameron area on the western navajo reservation. The illustration shows a storm pattern that is little different in design from contemporary examples.
This includes handspun single ply commercial one ply and multi ply yarns. There are many stories as to what this x or h means. Storm pattern navajo rugs. Moore the trader at crystal trading post who produced a catalogue of navajo rugs to open the eastern market for navajo weaving in his attempt to reverse the decline in navajo weaving an attempt that ultimately.
Moore said this pattern is one of the really legendary designs embodying a portion of the navajo mythology. For the navajo this is captured in the beautiful and mysterious designs of the storm pattern weaving. Captured in a catalog published between 1903 1911 no one knows how this legendary rug came to be because its style and imagery weren t found anywhere else in the history of the navajo. The storm pattern s precise origin is uncertain one story suggests it was developed by a trader on the western side of the reservation but the weavers at crystal developed this concept into one of the most popular and lasting of all navajo rug patterns.
Storm pattern navajo rugs have a recognizable pattern in which a central element is often connected to rectangular elements in each corner of the weaving.