It’s raining, like Seattle here! Look how green everything is. I love the green, I miss the sun. Oh well, it will be back next week and I’m not seeing much rain in the forecast.
The billboard guys work in the rain
At some point I need better pictures, I also need to find someone to take a closer look at this, although I don’t want to spend a fortune. This is a real Navajo rug.
When it stops raining, I’ll take better pictures. In the 20s or 30s my grandparents travelled through the southwest a well as Mexico. There were no fake Najavo rugs at the time. They probably bought this at one of the many trading posts that nowadays sell a lot of trinkets.
This rug is much more impressive than I had thought. I thought it was just stripes, which would have been fine. 30 years ago my mother moved her mother to Israel. She brought along the silver, her own watercolor paintings from when she was a girl. And this rug. She knew it was special and valuable.
It is woven in two parts, you can see the seam coming apart here. The looms were only so wide.
My grandmother may have displayed this, my mother never did. Which was probably a very good thing. Kept it stored away, out of the bright Israeli sunlight. Look how strong and vibrant that blue and black are. I love the details of the design, s intricate.
There is a hole, it looks like a mouse chewed through. This wool is so dense and tight, I don’t think it was moths.
After my mother’s funeral, I brought back an afghan my great-grandmother had made. I didn’t have any more room. So my brother had this cleaned and along with some other items my sons asked for, shipped it here.
So it’s back stateside. No, I’m not watching Kondo do her minimalism thing. Because this grandmother ended up being a hoarder, I’ve learned long ago to throw things away. The only things I regret getting rid of are textiles. From the same grandmother I used to have a lovely Chinese embroidered cloth, (no, she didn’t buy it in China). I also had an old Beduin embroidered dress. Those are the things I regret getting rid of. Textiles.
Now, I need to find out some more about this rug, I’ll keep you posted.
Leah