Featured in this lot is this 19th century large Navajo Transitional geometric rug. The rug features a wonderfully and professionally crafted wool construction. The rug features a geometric arrangement throughout the rug in extremely symmetrical fashion and shows spirit lines to the upper corners of the rug and shows coloration of of red, brown and off white coloration with the triangles pointing to the sides of the ends of the rug and shows stepped decoration to the borders of teh rug. The corners feature cluster tassels in the corners with bands of red on either side of the rug. During the last part of 19th century, trading posts opened up and traditional life for the Navajo began to evolve rapidly; especially when it came to Navajo weavers. It was with the changes to wool, newly available dyes, and the transition from wearing blankets to floor rugs; that gave way to this “transitional” period and thus, Transitional Rugs were born. It began in the late 1870s that “transitional”, also referred as “late classic,” began to give way to the transitional blanket. And within a decade, the Transitional Rug began to copy those elements and share in their colors and designs. Larger and heavier than their counterparts, bordered Transitional Rug weavings began to evolve and the old classic banded-style of wearing blankets were nearly phased out altogether by the early 1900s. The condition of this Navajo rug is well preserved with some fraying leading to small holes in the weave and loosening to the ends of some of the weaves but otherwise is well preserved. The measurements of this rug is 101 1/2" x 52". The thread count of this rug is 45 threads per square inch.