April 1, 2024
VINTAGE Navajo Ganado Rug, c. 1930
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VINTAGE Navajo Ganado Rug, c. 1930, 64.5" H x 44.5" W. This rug is in good condition. There is some edge wear, two small holes, and one 2" stain. The warp count is 7 and the weft count 26, per inch. Acquired from a private collection out of South Carolina.Ganado, Arizona was the home and base of operations for Juan Lorenzo Hubbell - who, by most accounts, was the leading trader of the early Rug Period and owned several trading posts around the Reservation, as well as a large warehouse in the railroad town of Winslow, Arizona. Ganado is about 50 miles south of Canyon de Chelly. Hubbell's tastes ran to Classic Navajo Period weavings and many of the early rugs made by Ganado area weavers were close enough in appearance to classic mantas and serapes to have earned the generic name, Hubbell Revival rugs. Hubbell guided his weavers by displaying paintings of rug patterns he favored. Many of these paintings can still be seen at the original trading post, now preserved and operated as a National Historic Site. Hubbell preferred a color scheme of red, white, and black, with natural greys, often substituting black for elements that would have been indigo blue in Classic Period weavings. By the 1930s, Ganado area weavers had thoroughly adopted the color scheme, but had moved away from Classic-inspired weavings to new patterns with a large central
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