Wide Ruins

In the late 1930s, the Wide Ruins Post, in the same geographic area as Burntwater, encouraged weavers to use colors extracted from nature. The Post encouraged a return to old-style pattern elements--connected diamonds, lines of rhomboids and alternating straight lines extending from edge to edge without a border. The colors tend to be deep, somber vegetals--maroons, browns and olives highlighted with a primary or elemental color such as red, white or even black. Wide Ruins rugs are usually the most finely woven banded rugs, appearing to have evolved from the Chinle pattern.