Navajo Ganado Rug

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Navajo Ganado Rug:
$549.00

This Navajo Ganado Rug was made in the 1920\'s - 1930\'s. The dimensions are 63\" by 37.75\".

Juan Lorenzo Hubbell was, by most accounts, the leadingtrader of the early Rug Period and owned several trading posts around theReservation as well as a large warehouse in the railroad town of Winslow,Arizona. Hubbell_s home and base of operation were at Ganado, Arizona about 50miles south of Canyon de Chelly. His tastes ran to Classic Navajo Periodweavings and many of the early rugs made by Ganado area weavers were closeenough in appearance to classic mantas and serapes to have earned the genericname, Hubbell Revival rugs. Hubbell guided his weavers by displaying paintingsof rug patterns he favored. Many of these paintings can still be seen at theoriginal trading post, now preserved and operated as a National Historic Site.Hubbell preferred a color scheme of red, white, and black, with natural greys,often substituting black for elements that would have been indigo blue inClassic Period weavings. By the 1930s, Ganado area weavers had thoroughlyadopted the color scheme, but had moved away from Classic-inspired weavings tonew patterns with a large central motif_often a complicated diamond or lozengeshape_with a double or triple geometric border. These rugs frequently had adeep red ground or field on which the central motif was superimposed, and arenow known as the Ganado regional style.