Crystal Navajo Rugs, - Navajo Crystal JB Moore Plate 19 Variant Textile



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Crystal Navajo Rugs, - Navajo Crystal JB Moore Plate 19 Variant Textile

Navajo Crystal JB Moore Plate 19 Variant Textile

c.1905
74.5 " x 49.5 "

T91001-0311-004

$1,075

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Price lowered from $1,250 to $1,075 per the consigner. This weaving is made with very soft Churro wool and is a great early Crystal weaving. J.B. Moore, who owned the trading post at Crystal, New Mexico from 1897-1911, was a visionary trader who exercised enormous influence over early Navajo rug design. Perhaps his most important innovation was to introduce weavers in his region to Oriental rug patterns. Rather than copying wholesale, the Navajo filtered the new patterns through their own cultural sensibilities and personal design preferences. In the process, they drew out specific concepts and motifs, re-synthesizing them into distinctly Navajo designs. Motifs probably derived from oriental rugs include repeated hook shapes (often called

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