Book: One Hundred Years of Navajo Rugs [SOLD]

One Hundred Years of Navajo Rugs

by Marian Rodee, et al.

1995, softcover

From the Back Cover:

This history of Navajo weaving is a revised, expanded, and updated version of Marian Rodee's 1981 classic book Old Navajo Rugs: Their Development from 1900 to 1940. Designed for the general reader, museum goer, or collector, the book offers a guide to identifying and dating rugs by means of weaving materials. Wool quality, the author explains, is the single most important clue to the date of a rug's manufacture. Rodee also provides historical background on the great Navajo weaves and especially on the traders who bought rugs from the Navajo-Cotton, Moore, Hubbell, Bloomfield, McSparron, and others, all of whom had some influence on the development of the craft and patterns of Navajo weaving.

Since her first book, more information about more collections of rugs has become available, and this book includes a greatly expanded section of color plates in addition to sixty-four black-and-white photographs. Rodee has also added two maps, one of the Navajo Nation and one of the trading posts and outlet stores.

For anyone who enjoys looking at Navajo rugs, and especially for those considering buying them, this book is an indispensable and informative guide....