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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 372219, member: 45&quot;]All I can tell you is that it definitely isn&#039;t Native American.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; It produces a textile that is identified by that weaving technique, rather than by the design, or some of the other frequently-mentioned &quot;characteristics.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Among those is the so-called &quot;lazy line,&quot; more accurately called a &quot;section line.&quot;&nbsp; Whether a rug has them or not is no indication of it being Navajo, or not.&nbsp; Some large rugs do, some don&#039;t, and there is no reason for a smaller rug to ever have section lines.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Nor do all Navajo rugs have edge warps, another characteristic often mistakenly given as proof it is, or isn&#039;t, Navajo.</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;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.&nbsp; 2) The edge warps are not thicker than the rest of the warps or made up of a &quot;bundle&quot; of threads.&nbsp; And 3) It will not have double &quot;ridges&quot; along the sides, showing a difference in texture from the rest of the surface of the rug.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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