This is a nice handmade tight all wool and natural dyed rug from the Navajo Native American Indians in a fine Crystal Eye Dazzler pattern. The rug dates to the circa 1940’s and shows a very attractive unbanded-Crystal pattern with Eye Dazzler detail showing well preserved good condition. Originally the Old Crystal trading post was established in 1894, in this remote part of the Navajo Reservation Southwest of Two Grey Hills and Northwest of Gallup. In 1896 J.B. Moore purchased an interest in the trading post and re-named it Crystal after a pure sparkling mountain spring that was in the area. Due to the remoteness of the Trading Post he started using a mail order catalog to sell his rugs to the Eastern market. The first catalog came out in 1903, with another in 1911. He left the reservation in 1911. During his stay at Crystal he greatly influenced the change in styles of Navajo rugs being produced at the Crystal Trading Post. This rug shows a nice tight weave with soft wool having a cream / white background with stepped diamonds of brown, red and grey accented by three central stepped diamond storm patterns with hourglass sections in grey, white and red along with four stepped outer sections in brown and grey. The rug measures 60 1/2" x 35 1/2."