{"id":1369,"date":"2011-02-28T09:35:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T05:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2011-02-28T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:33:00","slug":"sunday-afternoon-weavers-gather-at-fireweed-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/sunday-afternoon-weavers-gather-at-fireweed-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon Weavers Gather at Fireweed Place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nora Dauenhauer files away her weaving notes in her attache' case of;Chilkat weft yarns<\/p><\/div>\n

For the past year, Della Cheney has been hosting a group of artists every Sunday afternoon at the Fireweed Place here in Juneau, Alaska.\u00a0 Like Della, most of the artists are Ravenstail weavers, cedar bark and\/or spruce root basket weavers, although some of them include additional talents like beadworking, and leather work making moccasins and mittens.\u00a0 When Chilkat weavers joined the basket and Ravenstail\u00a0 weavers last Sunday, Fireweed Place’s activity room was packed.\u00a0 There was a lot of fun and excitement.\u00a0 Time flew!<\/p>\n

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Yoko Kugo explains to Della Cheney the research she is conducting about whether or not there are effects of climate change on the cedar trees.<\/p><\/div>\n

There are no specified “teachers” in the group, as we are all learning from one another and teaching one another.\u00a0 There are those of us who know how to weave cedar bark hats, yet are learning how to make moccasins; those that know how to weave Ravenstail and are learning how to weave cedar; those teaching Chilkat who are learning Ravenstail.\u00a0 The combination of learning and teaching goes on and on.<\/p>\n

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Lorraine DeAsis reinforces her children's knowledge of weaving cedar bark headbands and hats by weaving right along side all four. L to R: Patrice, Joshua, Lorraine, Armondo & Antonio<\/p><\/div>\n

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Leandrea Makaily works diligently on her Chilkat headband<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mary Ebona Miller is weaving three Ravenstail projects on her loom<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shgen George is spinning Chilkat warp on her thigh<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kendra Makaily is learning cross-stitching from Debra O'Gara<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lily Hudson is refreshing Nora's memory about weaving her "bear claw" pattern<\/p><\/div>\n

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A bowl of cedar bark soaks while Patrice DeAsis weaves a cedar bark hat<\/p><\/div>\n

Eileen is one of Della’s basket weaving students; she has learned enough to pass on her knowledge to others in the group.\u00a0 Although I started my cedar bark hat with Della almost two years ago in a class in Teslin, Yukon Territory, Eileen is helping me complete the very edge of the hat.\u00a0 Both Della and Eileen are wonderful teachers.\u00a0 I’m enjoying the comraderie of these women and all those who are attending the Sunday gatherings.<\/p>\n

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Eileen Wagner shows Dorothy Owen the 6-strand finishing row of her cedar bark hat<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, there are some of us who bring food to share.\u00a0 Eileen is one of those follks.\u00a0 She has been co-hosting this gathering of weavers every Sunday with Della Cheney providing some sort of a hot dish of salmon with rice, snacks and vanilla wafers.\u00a0 She takes really good care of us “kids!”\u00a0 We wanna come back every Sunday for more of everything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past year, Della Cheney has been hosting a group of artists every Sunday afternoon at the Fireweed Place here in Juneau, Alaska.\u00a0 Like Della, most of the artists are Ravenstail weavers, cedar bark and\/or spruce root basket weavers, although some of them include additional talents like beadworking, and leather work making moccasins and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,50],"tags":[90,62,122,7,52,121,100,98,123],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes-retreats-apprentices","category-tlingit-cultural-events","tag-alaska-native-art","tag-alaskan-artists","tag-cedar-bark-weaving","tag-chilkat","tag-chilkat-weaving","tag-della-cheney","tag-native-american-art","tag-northwest-coast-tlingit-native-art","tag-ravenstail-weaving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}