Navajo Rug Patterns
Typically the yeis are highly stylized figures with elongated bodies short straight legs and heads facing the viewer.
Navajo rug patterns. Today navajo rug making is a fine art and weavers opt to work with natural or commercial dyes and traditional pictorial or a wide range of geometric designs. The navajo women who became the region s weavers expanded the range of patterns beyond striped bands of color and turned the designs into today s widely recognized patterns. Alltribes has the opportunity to buy sell and trade with some. I would never copy a work of art but the motifs and color combinations are inspiring.
5 out of 5 stars 142 142 reviews 11 85. See more ideas about navajo rugs navajo rug design. Aug 30 2019 motifs in dine navajo rugs that might be suitable for quilts. The closely related yeibechai rugs show navajo dancers in the act of portraying yeis in ceremonies.
Only 1 left favorite add to southwestern navajo style design hand woven kilim geometrical pattern wool area rugs ayushirugs. 5 out of 5. Yei pattern rugs feature images of the holy people drawn from ceremonial sand paintings but do not recreate an entire painting.