Navajo Design Two Grey Hills Pattern Rug - 6x9 0555-5034-RUG
Navajo Design Two Grey Hills Pattern Rug - 6x9
This is southwestern rug weaving at its finest. This Navajo style Two Grey Hill pattern rug comes from an old friend of Richard's: Doug Babett. This one was made the old fashion way, it was hand woven on a loom. It hearkens back to the old stories of how the Spider Woman deity taught the people how to weave rugs. This Navajo style rug was made from genuine Wool and some genuine Cotton. This rug represents extremely fine weaving. It is a benchmark - a collectible among collectibles. This rug is 6.3 by 9.1". Imported. At Home Depot and Lowe's their machine made rugs cost more than this hand made rug. We're having a close out on rugs in order to make room for a new line, and we're offering them at low prices below our cost.
Spider Woman / Spider Rock stands with awesome dignity and beauty over 800 feet high in Arizona's colorful Canyon de Chelly National Park. Geologists of the National Park Service say that "the formation began 230 million years ago. Windblown sand swirled and compressed with time created the spectacular red sandstone monolith. Long ago, the Dine' Indian tribe named it Spider Rock. Stratified, multicolored cliff walls surround the canyon. For many, many centuries the Dine' built caves and lived in these cliffs. Most of the caves were located high above the canyon floor, protecting them from enemies and flash floods. Spider Woman possessed supernatural power at the time of creation, when Dine' emerged from the third world into this fourth world. At that time, monsters roamed the land and killed many people. Since Spider Woman loved the people, she gave power for Monster-Slayer and Child-Born-of-Water to search for the Sun-God who was their father. When they found him, Sun-God showed them how to destroy all the monsters on land and in the water. Because she preserved their people, Dine' established Spider Woman among their most important and honored Deities. She chose the top of Spider Rock for her home. It was Spider Woman who taught Dine' ancestors of long ago the art of weaving upon a loom. She told them, "My husband, Spider Man, constructed the weaving loom making the cross poles of sky and earth cords to support the structure; the warp sticks of sun rays, lengthwise to cross the woof; the heralds of rock crystal and sheet lightning, to maintain original condition of fibers. For the batten, he chose a sun halo to seal joints, and for the comb he chose a white shell to clean strands in a combing manner." Through many generations, the Dine' have always been accomplished weavers. From their elders, Dine' children heard warnings that if they did not behave themselves, Spider Woman would let down her web- ladder and carry them up to her home and devour them! The children also heard that the top of Spider Rock was white from the sun-bleached bones of Dine' children who did not behave themselves! |