Navajo Textiles & Blankets: Ganado

The Ganado trading post in northeastern Arizona operated under Lorenzo Hubbell beginning in either 1876 or 1878, records are unclear. Hubbell encouraged the continuance of traditional blanket styles among his weavers, creating the famous Hubbell revivals of the late nineteenth century. These excellent textiles were most often worked in Germantown yarns in the old patterns, but proved to be unpopular. In the first decades of the twentieth century, rugs with bold patterning and simplistic design over carded gray and brown fields were the standard. Hubbell moved away from classically derived design and incorporated Oriental elements akin to those in use at Crystal under the watchful eye of J.B.Moore (Rodee, One Hundred Years of Navajo Rugs, 1995: 123-142).

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