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Message:: [QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 1068998, member: 8267"]Some references I have found helpful:Maxwell, Gilbert S. Navajo Rugs, past present & future. Best-West Publications,1963.Brody, J.J. Between Traditions: Navajo Weaving Toward the End of the Nineteenth Century. University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1976.Rodee, Marian E. Old Navajo Rugs: Their Development from 1900 to 1940. University of New Mexico Press, 1981.James, H.L. Rugs and Posts: the Story of Navajo Weaving and Indian Trading. Schiffer Publishing, 1988.Bennett, Noel & Tiana Bighorse. Navajo Weaving Way: The Path from Fleece to Rug.Interweave Press, 1997. Germantown actually refers to a particular yarn used by some of the Navajo weavers from about 1880 to 1910. It was a 4 ply aniline dyed yarn made in Germantown, Pennsylvania. This is the brightly colored yarn used in the so-called "eye-dazzlers".[/QUOTE]