Ben Leroux spins yarn for Navajo rug repairs in his studio. "You know the history of a rug by the design and materials, the different wools and the different dyes," he says.

This Navajo rug is for sale by Leonard Brown. It has whirling logs on it and an appraiser said it was from 1910. The symbol all but disappeared from Navajo artists’ wares after the 1930s, making ...

Her first Navajo rug – a small memento for a Sacramento traveler – became the cornerstone of a fantastic collection, mostly handmade by Greaves. Rugs and blankets woven in the Navajo tradition ...

In the past 200 years Navajo weaving has gone from the shoulders to the floor and now to a place of distinction on the gallery wall. One of a new generation of Native American weavers, Brenda ...

It left the rug "open," part of the Navajo belief that knowledge flows through every weaving. "If you don't do this," Begay said, snipping the red yarn, "you are closed off from the world's knowledge.

“This rug looks exactly like it did when it was made 110 years ago,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with it.” Brown has been buying, selling, trading and collecting items for decades.

Rugs have always represented both beauty and function ... Jan. 31 at the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville also showcases their role in keeping the history of the Navajo people ...

The Navajo hold a giant place in the annals of Native American arts, and deservedly so. Around the time that Columbus discovered America, the Navajo were settling in what would become the southwestern ...

But Brown said it’s this rug’s design that’s attracted quite a bit of interest. He said he’s had to correct callers who believe the symbols are swastikas.