Crystal Area & Vegetal Weavings
The Crystal Trading Post was on the top of Narbona Pass in the Chuska Mountains. It was located at over 8000 feet above sea level and the winters are long. There are really two stories of weavings from the area. The first began when JB Moore purchased the post and rebuilt it, opening in 1896. He developed a unique style of weaving, based on Turkish and Mediterranean motifs, insisted on quality and created a catalog which he used to market the weavings to Eastern parlors. Moore left the reservation in 1911, but his patterns proliferated and flourished, many ending up in the Two Grey Hills area to the east.
The second style of Crystal showed up in the early 1940’s when the trader, Don Jensen, realized how popular the vegetal dyes at Wide Ruins were becoming and encouraged his weavers to create borderless, striped patterns in vegetal dye colors.
BROWSE CATEGORIES
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Navajo Weaving - Vintage Crystal with Whirling Logs, C009590
Regular Price:$1,500.00
$1,500.00 -
Navajo Weaving - Crystal by Charlene Laughing, C009609
Regular Price:$9,500.00
$9,500.00 -
Navajo Weaving - Crystal Style by Alyssa Harrison, C007770
Regular Price:$900.00
$900.00 -
Navajo Weaving - Modern Crystal by Alice Begay, C007711
Regular Price:$2,400.00
$2,400.00
We have been visiting and shopping at Toh-Atin for over twenty years. Always loved visiting with Jackson and his mother. We would spend hours gathering information on rugs, jewelry, and baskets- what a tremendous inventory. Everyone was so knowledgeable. We have so many memorable pieces. Jackson asked my husband, " How often do you get compliments on your tie?" We bought a very nice bolo! :)
We had just seen and visited with Jackson two weeks earlier and were so saddened and shocked to hear of his passing. What a loss to friends, family, and community. Our deepest condolences to his family and to the staff.
Layne and Liz Puls, Boerne, TX
