Oh no…you just gave me more ideas …Don may not appreciate that 
My only advice if you end up leaving it there is occasionally move it a bit and flip it so it doesn’t crease. I do that with ours that aren’t flat. But then I get a little paranoid.
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Thanks for the tip, Zia. I do rotate it end for end and move it once a week, paranoia isn’t always a bad thing! 
I cringe when I see photos of folded up blankets and rugs. But that’s probably from my assuming they aren’t moved often. 
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Uh-oh…I promise that “questionable influence” is not my intent…as long as @TAH doesn’t get wind about me providing you with “inspiration”, we should be fine…
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@Ziacat DO NOT LISTEN TO HIM.
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You made me literally LOL
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don’t forget direct sun WILL fade them, too. #voiceof experience 
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Another great tip, thank you @Jemez2!
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I’m always trying to figure out if my rugs are too close to the windows - in my brain I’m trying to calculate if the sun will reach them from across the room 
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I have a saddle blanket that hangs on the wall in my hallway. It gets no direct sunlight. But I never have rotated or turned it. I guess I should do that? To avoid fading? Is there any other reasons to rotate?
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Hey Chris,
How do you have it hung?
Long exposure to direct sunlight is the concern with fading. It doesn’t sound like this is a concern, but do you know if your saddle blanket is woven with natural wools or does it contain dyes? If it does contain dyed wool, the rate of fading is dependant upon how colorfast the dyes are. Do you know the approximate age of your weaving?
Depending on how it’s displayed, it’s my limited understanding that rotation and flipping helps prevent any sag from the weaving’s own weight. I have learned of blankets that have never been rotated having moth damage on the wall side.
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I haven’t rotated mine either that are on the walls, but they aren’t getting direct sunlight. I have heard that you should check the backs of them to make sure they don’t get moth eggs. So every so often I take them down and look at the backs.
I don’t think it would ever hurt to rotate them, so I have thought that I should take them out of the hangers and do that; like so many things I procrastinate about I just haven’t yet.
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I think if they are hung properly in a rug hanger the sagging isn’t an issue. However, my understanding is that even if they’re rotated, hanging them improperly can cause stretching/sagging.
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I know absolutely nothing about it. I purchased it at an estate sale for $25. I brought it home and hung it on my wall. It came with the hanger when I purchased it. It wasn’t until I did more research that I realized it was a Navajo saddle blanket.
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That is absolutely beautiful!! I love it. I can’t remember the exact name of the style; I’ll look it up after a bit, and let you know. I believe it’s a non-regional type of rug, but there’s an actual term for that type of weaving, and I’m blanking on it.
I just realized you said $25 you did very well.
And that’s an excellent hanger for it; it supports it all the way across.
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Thank you so much! I was one of the first ones in the door at the sale. I put it up at the register. People were trying to take my blanket while I kept shopping. I had to keep a close eye on it.
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It looks like a diamond twill. It’s beautiful, Chris! For $25 and the hanger, you made out like a bandit! Congratulations!
I agree with Zia, you’ve got yourself a legitimate hanger, but I’m also a fan of carpet tack strips. They support the weaving along its full length, while leaving the entire weaving visible.
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I would have clung very tightly to that also!
We have two saddle blankets - one which was my mom’s and is in pretty poor shape, and also the first rug we ever bought. The one we bought, we bought as pawn, and it’s a rougher weave, but a gentleman at the trading post pointed out that you can actually feel a few burrs still stuck in the wool which shows that it was hand carded. So I love that about it.
I love that pattern in yours. I was thinking the name of the weaving had the word “twill” in it, and here you go!
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I see you just posted also that it’s a twill weave 
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Carpet tack strips. What an ingenious idea. I would have never thought of it.
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That’s how my Yei rug is hung. It’s a super clean look.
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