Rug # U219

2.5' X 4'

Joanne Todacheeny

$900

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Around the 1920's a visitor to the Southwest named Mary Cabot Wheelwright helped influence this style of weaving.  She did not like the harsh aniline colors or the oriental rug designs.  She wanted a return to the nineteenth-century Classic blanket style.  In order to get more weavers to try the new style she would provide pictures of patterns and would then purchase the rugs.  At first many of the rugs were woven with aniline dyes with a lot of red and often with several different bright colors.  Many of the older weavers began to extract more native dyes and began to invent new recipes that had never been tried before.  With this the distinctive style evolved.  The style favors the southwest with white, black, yellows and browns from the desert plants.

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