@Stracci What a story! Made me chuckle a bit because I’ve been known to put books in the freezer. Helps to get rid of pests, musty smells & mold/mildew. Freezer Purgatory🤣.
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It really looks so beautiful !!
I’m sure since it’s from a gallery or shop, you are probably fine.
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This is my favorite rug. I go back and forth as favs between it and our Two Grey Hills rug, but this one gives me the most joy. I had always wanted a pictorial rug (that I could afford), and finally found one in the giant pile of rugs at Ogg’s Hogan. I love the little Navajo figures, red rocks, scrubby little pine trees, the sheep, cows and hogan, everything about it.
We hung it next to a print of the Colorado River at Horseshoe Bend that we bought in the in the visitor center at the Navajo Bridge near Marble Canyon. They seem to fit well together.
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The detail in this is awesome! I really like the border, as well. Thanks for sharing, Zia. Your Colorado River print compliments it exceptionally well. 
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Pictorial weavings are always so impressive. I can’t even comprehend the concentration, patience, and talent it takes to create one.
Horseshoe Bend! Been there and it’s definitely worth the hike.
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It is! Except now it’s absolutely packed since the instagrammers keep posting selfies from there. We were so lucky in that when we were there years ago we were the only ones. It still had a tiny dirt parking lot.
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Your rug is more what I had in mind at the start of our trip. I like the colors and really just everything about it.
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While they’re a bit different than Navajo weavings, the following concerning Saltillos is mind blowing.
I recall watching a Medicine Man Gallery Art Dealer Diaries podcast that Dr. Sublette had Mark Winter on for a guest.
While they were discussing classical Mexican Saltillo serapes, Dr. Sublette inquired as to the invested time to weave one. Mr. Winter replied that he’d read anywhere from eighteen months to three years. As most of them are made in two pieces, for a single half panel, there are a hundred weft changes across the face of the Saltillo, with the diamond area having more. There are a hundred weft changes per inch, as to change color is a hand manipulation, it’s a hundred times, and they contain a hundred threads per inch, so it’s ten thousand hand manipulations to move one inch, and they’re ~a hundred inches long, so that’s a million hand manipulations to weave one side…and the other side needs to be woven to match…
The above begins at 59:27.
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One time while we were at Cameron Trading Post, a Navajo woman was weaving in the rug area. There was a guide with a group of tourists, and one of them asked if the lady would consider coming down on the price of a rug. My husband listened as the guide gently explained to her how the weaver had sheared her own sheep, hand carded and spun the wool, collected the natural dyes, and wove it by hand. He said something like, “after doing all this she only mades about $3 an hour, and I can’t ask her to take less than that.” Tourist was silent.
We have a friend who is an amazing artist/carpenter, and he always commented on how people just don’t want to spend the money for handmade things. But at least if they understand it, they can grasp why things cost more. I can’t afford the highest end rugs, but I can certainly appreciate them.
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I hear you! I would never ask for a lower price with an artist! This is why I make sure I have enough $$ before I ask for a custom order.
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Just saw this pictorial perfection. I absolutely love every aspect of this one.
Navajo, Yei Pictorial, ca. 1925
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Really neat rug, Aaron! It could easily qualify for Turquoise Artwork.
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I am not on Facebook, but hubby has an account (although he never looks at it 
), so occasionally I go on and check out a site for Navajo rugs. I saw this one last night, and WOW. Sorry for the poor quality - it’s a pic I took of it on his phone. But I had to share it!
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@Ziacat What a great bald eagle rug! Do you have a rug by this weaver or how did you find this one?
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It is amazing, isn’t it? No I don’t own any rugs by this weaver. I have a pretty decent general knowledge of rugs, but not necessarily of particular weavers. I just occasionally look on my husband’s phone at a Facebook site on about Navajo rugs. The bird rug I posted earlier in the thread was also from that site.
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This is unreal. I wonder at the size of it? Such incredible precision. The detail of the feathers on the back of the eagles’ necks is a neat touch. Thanks for haring this, Zia.
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If I have a chance after hubby is home from work, I’ll try to remember to look again, and see if it had the size.
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Wow that eagle rug is amazing! And just in time for Fourth of July. I’ve never seen one anything like it.
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@Ravenscry is the Navajo saddle blanket in the first post yours? I really love it. In your description it says the thunder bird is painted on?
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Not yet! 
I’ve been admiring that weaving for a long time.
Indeed, the gallery that has it told me as much, and that due to it being painted, it hasn’t been cleaned. Nor should it be, in my opinion. The thunderbird would more than likely wash away. I thought the painted design was a unique element, I’d never seen or heard of that until coming across that one.
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