Is this small rug Native American, Navajo?

Pops says it has a lazy line which he believes is Navajo. I have no idea. Anyways here are a few pictures of the rug, now if I can just explain that some of the design is "puffy" and soft, like I guess its like hooked??? while the rest is just woven. It measures about 37" by 53". Thanks!

 

I'm not good at Navajo rugs, but Taupou is. Here are 2 quotes about other rugs in which she gives excellent info on Navajo weaving. Notice in particular that woven rugs with fringe at both ends are NOT Navajo.

 

Cant help,but what a pretty little rug.

 

All I can tell you is that it definitely isn't Native American.

The Navajo are the only U.S. tribe that weaves rugs, and they use a unique type of loom and weaving technique found nowhere else in the world. It produces a textile that is identified by that weaving technique, rather than by the design, or some of the other frequently-mentioned "characteristics."

Among those is the so-called "lazy line," more accurately called a "section line." Whether a rug has them or not is no indication of it being Navajo, or not. Some large rugs do, some don't, and there is no reason for a smaller rug to ever have section lines.

Nor do all Navajo rugs have edge warps, another characteristic often mistakenly given as proof it is, or isn't, Navajo.

What's important in identifying a genuine Navajo rug is: 1) It will never have fringe on both ends that is an extension of the warp threads. 2) The edge warps are not thicker than the rest of the warps or made up of a "bundle" of threads. And 3) It will not have double "ridges" along the sides, showing a difference in texture from the rest of the surface of the rug.

 

It looks like a traditional dhurrie from India to me. Very popular in the 70s and 80s.

 

I'm so glad you posted Taupou's quote, because upon seeing Wildrose's photo, that quote is what came to mind.....but of course I wasn't absolutely positive it's what I remembered. Now I don't think I shall forget that NA rugs do not have fringe.

How smart of you to have saved his quote.

TY Bakersgama and Taupou.

That is a pretty rug Wildrose.

 

In reading Taupou's reply above, I do have a question.

Do they ever have ONE fringed end? Or NEVER?

 

Yes, a Gallup Throw will have one end (only) with fringe as an extension of the warp. Gallup Throws are inexpensive, more loosely woven, small rugs, made as popular souvenir items. Unlike other Navajo rugs, they were usually woven with a cotton, rather than wool, warp.

 

Thank you Taupou.

 

AND old Navajo Germantowns can have fringe that was an add-on-they’re my personal fave.

 

thank you for all the replies!!