Navajo Dye Charts

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 10:39 AM

Navajo Dye Charts

Back in the 1930's Sallie Wagner Lippincott and her husband, Bill, purchased the Wide Ruins Trading Post in Arizona. She was a young, dynamic woman who truly loved the Navajo people she worked with. But there was one thing she didn't like about how things were going at the trading post.

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Sallie Lippincott's Collection of Navajo Weavings

Sallie Lippincott and her husband, Bill Wagner, purchased the Wide Ruins Trading Post in the 1930s when she was only 28. They were the first traders on the reservation who required their weavers to use vegetal dyes.

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A Weaver Who Stepped Out of the Box

Monday, April 10, 2023 8:37 AM

A Weaver Who Stepped Out of the Box

During the 1970s, we began to see Navajo weavings with more than one pattern. Some would feature two or three or more Navajo weavings woven within the borders of the main rug.

Some, like the Burnham area weavings, would include parts of different design elements from multiple weaving areas.

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