Burntwater Navajo Weavings Garden of the Gods Trading Post Burntwater Navajo Weavings Burntwaters are named after a trading post high on the bench lands north of the Rio Puerco Valley that was established by Burris N. Barnes around 1905.
Legend has it that a shelter caught fire and fell into the trading post well.
The actual rug style is a later development of 1968 when trading post owner, Don Jacobs reported an all-vegetal dyed, bordered rug featuring geometric woven by Philomena Yazzie. Mr. Jacobs did not think much of the rug, but it sold within days, so the Burntwater regional style was born. Today's Burntwater rugs are are made up of numerous colors, sometimes up to forty shades. Early Burntwaters were typically constructed of vegetal-dyed commercial yarn. Today both vegetal as well as commercially dyed yarns are used.