| Circa 1885 Serrated Diamond Serape Blanket with Indigo 79" x 60" Churro Offered here is a circa 1885 fine weave Navaho weaving that measures 6 feet 7 inches long by 5 foot wide and is excellent condition. It was woven by a master weaver on a primitive upright loom of all Native hand shorn, hand carded and finely handspun silky old long staple Churro sheep wool weft on a 4-ply white Germantown wool warp. The design of this beautiful old wearing blanket is finely serrated concentric triple diamond layout. The weaver used a fine outlining technique for a number of the concentric layers. Lots of Indigo was used throughout the blanket, including Indigo selvage cords all the way around. Just an extremely fine woven early transitional blanket with an explosion of great old colors. This vintage Native American textile has a fine weft count averaging 38-40 per inch and a warp count of 8 per inch. The selvage cords are 100% original with one break restored and in excellent condition. Warp selvages are 2-spiral cords and weft selvages are 2-spiral cords. The corners are tight, original and in excellent condition. All 4 tassels have been restored to excellent. No wear, no holes, no odors, no moth-bites, no fade, no stains and no snags. It is clean and comes from a non-smoking home. There is some light bleed of red into the yellow end stripes and there are some scattered faint spots but nothing major or obtrusive. Both sides are shown in photos below. It lays flat & smooth and is symmetrical. Colors are bright and strong in this piece of old American Indian art and they are: hand carded natural ivory white along with hand dyed vegetal old natural Indigo blue, aniline transitional red, aniline transitional orange, lemon yellow of either vegetal or aniline dye and a variegated raspberry red which is also either a prickly pear vegetal or an aniline dye. Complete with lazy lines, this nice example of antique Native Americana is ready to display or just tuck away in your private rug & blanket collection. © #544 -RROK12 $13,900.00 |
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| Ranchfolks Navajo Rug Co. |
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| If you would like to purchase this weaving, contact us by email at ranchfolks@bacavalley.com or phone 575-278-2400 to provide your UPS shipping address and we will figure the postage & insurance for your final total before invoicing. |
