Chilkat weaving has been practiced for hundreds of years by Indigenous people on the Northwest Coast. The intricate design is a kind of woven record, documenting history and clan migration.

She spoke during the Chilkat and Ravenstail Weaving Symposium to a packed clan house audience inside the Walter Soboleff Building Wednesday. It was one of the first official events of Sealaska ...

Wednesday’s event was both a ceremony and a history lesson on Chilkat weaving, which is known as one of the most complex weaving techniques in the world and in recent years was considered to be ...

(Photo by Annie Bartholomew, KTOO - Juneau) Tagaban is weaving in the Chilkat tradition. The textile technique is passed down through Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian families and there are strict ...

Whether they came to Alaska or remained in British Columbia, Tsimshian people released the practice of weaving Chilkat ceremonial dancing blankets, along with all our ceremonial arts, due to ...

A tradition which originated with the Tsimshian tribe, Chilkat weaving is now practiced by traditional Tlingit weavers in the Chilkat Valley of Alaska. The distinctive pieces combine imagery from ...

The tassels were frayed and twisted, the colors faded. The Tlingit ceremonial garment called a Naaxein or Chilkat robe was born from the hands of a Tlingit weaver around the year 1900. The weaving is ...

The process of weaving a robe takes months, and tests a weaver’s patience. One of the essential texts on the art form, George T. Emmons, “The Chilkat Blanket,” was written in 1907 and delves ...

Hope, of Juneau, Alaska, has been practicing Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving since she was a teenager, having learned from her mother, Clarissa Rizal (Tlingit). “If I wanted to spend time with ...

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The daughter of late acclaimed Chilkat and Ravenstail weaver Clarissa Rizal, Hope is an award-winning Tlingit weaver and weaving teacher who is now leading a new project called the Giving Strength ...