{"id":1864,"date":"2011-06-08T04:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T00:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2011-06-13T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T03:53:13","slug":"extracting-sap-from-cedar-bark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/extracting-sap-from-cedar-bark\/","title":{"rendered":"Extracting Sap From Cedar Bark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nice heavy-duty pressure cooker<\/p><\/div>\n

Cedar bark basket weavers need not cook the sap out of the bark as part of their preparation of their materials.\u00a0 Those who are Chilkat weavers need to cook the sap out of the cedar bark before spinning the bark and wool to make their Chilkat warp.\u00a0\u00a0 In the olden days, a large pot full of water filled with cedar bark strips was placed on a fire outside.\u00a0 The water boiled for an hour or two, then dumped and clean water added and brought to a boil.\u00a0 This procedure continued for a week until there was not a whole lot of sap mixed with the water.\u00a0 This is a long procedure; I did it this way for several years until (the late) Agnes Bellinger, daughter to my weaving teacher (the late) Jennie Thlunaut, taught me how to do it the modern method:<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0 With a paper towel, rub the interior and the lid of a large pressure cooker with vegetable oil; 2) Fill the pressure cooker with 2\/3 water; 3) Add just enough cedar bark strips to fit into the pot comfortably – do not stuff the pot full; 4) Cover, bring pot to a boil – let boil at 10 pounds pressure for at least one hour, at the most two hours; 5) Release steam; 6) Open lid, let cool down up to an hour; 7)\u00a0 Find a place outdoors where you do not mind sap water being dumped.\u00a0 Do Not dump sap water on your lawn, in a flower bed or where trees (other than cedar) are growing.\u00a0 NEVER dump sap water down your drains or in the toilet.\u00a0 Follow these procedures…<\/p>\n

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Strips of cedar bark awaiting to be lifted out of their sappy water <\/p><\/div>\n

With a stick, lift out cedar bark strips from the sap water and place on news paper.\u00a0 (Note:\u00a0 if you use paper towels, there will be a tendency for the paper towel to stick to the bark).<\/p>\n

Rule of Thumb:\u00a0 Always take the bark out of the water before dumping the sap water.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Lifting cedar bark out of the sap water <\/p><\/div>\n

Find a place to dump the sap water.\u00a0 Do Not dump sap water on your lawn, in a flower bed or where trees (other than cedar) are growing.\u00a0 NEVER dump sap water down your drains or in the toilet.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Dumping sap water <\/p><\/div>\n

8)\u00a0 With a paper towel or rag, immediately wipe all the sap residue from the interior of your pressure cooker including the lid – then wash with pressure cooker with soap and water<\/p>\n

Your cedar bark should be free of most of its sap, ready to be split into fine silky strips for spinning with wool to create Chilkat warp.<\/p>\n

9)\u00a0 Store your bark in paper bags; never plastic bags nor plastic containers unless you know for sure that your bark is completely dry.<\/p>\n

Happy sappy-free bark!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cedar bark basket weavers need not cook the sap out of the bark as part of their preparation of their materials.\u00a0 Those who are Chilkat weavers need to cook the sap out of the cedar bark before spinning the bark and wool to make their Chilkat warp.\u00a0\u00a0 In the olden days, a large pot full […]<\/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":[29,50],"tags":[145,52],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-art-projects","category-tlingit-cultural-events","tag-cedar-bark","tag-chilkat-weaving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}