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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 734026, member: 45&quot;]A few things to consider about Navajo rugs.&nbsp; First, there are seven or eight (depending on if one considers Klagatoh a separate category) commonly used pattern names applied to rugs originally made around, and named for, trading posts.&nbsp; This started in the early 1920s, and evolved into designs containing specific elements for each area.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not all rugs made, however, fit into any one of those regional styles.&nbsp; There are also Storm Patterns, Yei and Yeibechai rugs, and the earlier Chief Patterns and Eyedazzlers, but by far the majority of rugs do not have a pattern name.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Two Grey Hills rug is characterized first, as being made from very finely-spun wool, resulting in dense, tightly woven rugs, by far the most technically-skilled of all Navajo weavings. The average Navajo rug has</p><p>about 30 wefts per inch. Two Grey Hills average 45, and up to 80 is not uncommon.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are made up of intricate patterns of natural colored blended wools of black, grey, browns, tan, ivory, and white.&nbsp; They have a central diamond and four corner elements, surrounded by one or more borders, the outside one black or dark brown.</p><p><br /></p><p>This rug does not have the characteristics to be a Two Grey Hills, other than the black border and natural colors.&nbsp; It is not finely enough woven, and lacks the central diamond and intricate patterns.&nbsp; It is bold and graphic, and looks to be of handspun wool, but is not Two Grey Hills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eyedazzlers are named that because of their extravagant use of brilliant colors, produced when commercial aniline dyes came on the market in the 1880s.&nbsp; So this isn&#039;t an eyedazzler, either, although the term is frequently misapplied on line.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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