ELEVATION:  5,364'

LOCATION:   Fifteen miles west of Teec Nos Pos lies the high, lonesome post of Red Mesa. (In Northeastern Arizona, near the Four Corners area)

THE RUG:   Here a small group of weavers are producing the Teec Nos Pos outline designs in traditional hand spun yarns of grays, white, black, maroons and dark red.  Some writers have recognized the Red Mesa rug as a distinct regional style because of the local weavers' dislike for bright colors.  The design, however, despite the subdued tones, remains typical Teec Nos Pos.

Most typically, the Red Mesa weaving design consists of a line of chevrons running down the middle of the weaving surrounded by radiating serrated diamonds.  The eyedazzler effect is created by laying a line of contrasting color against a lighter or darker color.  The outlining of a figure in a drypainting with a line of contrasting color had ritual meaning.  Likewise, weavers outlined a motif in one or even three or four colors popularly from 1880 to 1900 and still today in small numbers around the post of Red Mesa. 

Source:  Posts and Rugs, The Story of Navajo Rugs and Their Homes, by H. L. James, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Third Printing 1979; Copyright 1976 by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association. (Page 44)

Weaving of the Southwest, Marian Rodee, 1987, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, (Page 143)