Wide Ruins Navajo rugs - banded Navajo rug
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Wide Ruins became visible as a regional Navajo rug style during the Revival Period 1920-1940. Weavers in the Wide Ruins area make use of banded, unbordered designs in colors derived from all-vegetal dyes. Wide Ruins Navajo rug designs emphasize a range of soft pastel hues, but rather than the customary pale golds, greens and tans; the Wide Ruins weaver uses exquisite pinks, yellows, beiges, lilacs, blues, deep corals, rich grays, olive greens, and multiple shades of tans and browns. The wavy line pattern of this Navajo rug is sometimes evident, as are rows of arrows, and a modernized version of the old serrated diamond pattern, called squash blossoms. Wide Ruins Navajo rugs have a greater number of narrower bands and are typically more intricate in appearance than the Crystal Navajo rug.

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