Western Area Rugs
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Western Area rugs are styled as a reflection to the western life style.

The US Southwest within the vicinity of the four corners area has inspired images and styles that translate beautifully into Southwestern rugs. This style is a truly Native American craft heritage as developed by the Navajo craftsmen and craftswomen over many generations.

The Western life style, as depicted in so many movies and still exist in the Western parts of the US, is alive in home décor concepts also known as Western, rustic, cowboy, cabin, or mountain style.

The above roper rug is part of our western collection. You can find it at our store.

Rock, wood, metal, and leather are staring, while wool, birch barks, bead-work, and antlers adding a unique western flavor.

Western style area rugs often carry these motifs and themes:

• Cowboys and cowboys’ activity themes such as cattle, deer, horses, riding, fishing, hunting


• Western animals and plants; wolves, bear, moose , pine trees, pine cones, acorns, wildflowers, grazing fields


• Western landscapes and scenery; Mountains, lakes, rivers, canyons

Color palette of a Western styled room are honey colored wood, gray rock, and black metals. The furniture is accented by area rugs and wall hangings in brick red, terra cotta, forest green, navy blue, white cream and gray. Old looking is preferred over new looking. Western rugs blend well with a western style room, they might look a bit bizarre in a modern styled room. Southwestern Style rugs however will fit beautifully to both modern and rustic styled roomed.

Native American tribes, the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi tribes have developed the craft of hand-made woven western area rugs. They used the Navajo-Churro sheep wool, a breed of sheep adapted from the Iberian-Churro sheep by the Navajo that provides long and soft wool yarn.

Authentic Navajo Rugs are cherished by art collectors and are priced accordingly. This is the North American contribution to the area rugs legacy, paralleling the legacy of hand-knotted oriental rugs.

Different South Western Area Rugs

Western rugs are based on traditional native American tribes themes, on the early days of the West on Mexican themes and on TexMex traditions. Modern looms are used to weave the rugs from wool yarns, fully automated machine made rugs are usually made from high quality synthetic yarns. These styles are so popular that many of these rugs are imported. The cheapest area rugs are thick hand-tufted rugs with a cotton back layer. More expensive are hand-knotted thicker rugs.
Most interesting are flat-woven rugs that can be used for wall hangings.

Modern Southwestern Style Area Rugs

The modern southwest style area rugs are machine-made, synthetic area rugs or wool made, suitable for high-traffic indoor areas as well as outdoor areas.

Modern southwest style rugs use charming Southwestern themes, colors and patterns, styled according to the traditional Southwestern Rugs. Machine-made area rugs carry a lower price than the hand-woven floor rugs, nevertheless they come in an endless variety of patterns, colors and motifs. They fit modern style furniture and rustic style settings. Motifs such as mesas, helices, blocks and lines, are woven onto wool, nylon, olefin, and polyester.

Masada Rugs Store in Ventura County California

Our Simi Valley Rugs store offer a variety of southwestern and western area rugs in all sizes, colors and patterns. Our service is friendly and professional and we ship to any state in the continental USA.

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