Posted 9 years ago
Yorkielady
(6 items)
This lovely vintage rug measures 441/2 x 82. I have been told it was a Native American rug. Also I was told it is from the 1920s. It is in very good condition. Any information that you may have would be more than welcome. I purchased it at a yard sale in Las Vegas.
Sorry, but your weaving is not Native American, nor is it Mexican. It is a kilim, from the Middle East. Someone who specializes in that type of textiles should be able to identify it more precisely.
Native American weavings are identified not by the design, but by the way they are woven. If a rug is woven with fringes on the ends, it cannot be a Native American weaving. The Navajo are the only Native Americans that weave rugs, and they use a unique type of upright loom with a continuous warp, which makes it physically impossible to weave a rug with fringes on both ends. The rest of the world uses a horizontal loom, and it will be warped in such a way that fringes will result.
In addition, the Navajo use an "interlocking stitch" type of weave, where there is no space between adjoining colors. The areas where you can see a space between the designs indicate this was woven with a non-interlocking stitch, used by non-Navajo weavers, but common on Middle Eastern rugs.