{"id":1939,"date":"2011-06-22T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2011-06-22T12:56:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T08:56:51","slug":"necessary-chilkat-weaving-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/necessary-chilkat-weaving-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Necessary Chilkat Weaving Tools (Part 1): A Woven Organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With left over Ravenstail warp and yarns, I wove a flexible container that straddles the headboard of my weaving loom, to help organize and keep at hand my weft yarns, scissors, straight pins, tapestry needles, measure tape, etc. - all the important tools to have handy while weaving Chilkat or Ravenstail. If you look closely, you will see the individual containers are cedar bark baskets; one woven by my mother, one woven by my daughter, one woven by a friend and one woven by me.<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the things that I encourage my weaving students to create in their lives is organization.\u00a0 If we want to be an active Chilkat weaver, and we want to keep our sanity while weaving, we must be organized!\u00a0 If we are not born organized, Chilkat weaving will change that part of ourselves to become organized.\u00a0 And if we fight the requirement of becoming organized, then while weaving, we will spend quite a bit of your time sorting through things, trying to find something that was misplaced or lost, etc. \u00a0 When I am in the flow of creativity, the last thing I want to reach for is a tool that has been misplaced and I have to go searching for it, or untangle something or accidentally break something.\u00a0 This kind of act is quite disrupting to the flow of creativity; I work hard at avoiding distractions when I know I’m going into a creative groove; so I have a clean, organized surrounding. \u00a0 For those of you who are Chilkat weavers, for those who\u00a0 have recently learned Chilkat weaving and for those of you who have seen the actual weaving process, y’all understand what I am talking about!<\/p>\n

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A view from above the Chilkat weaving loom headboard container - notice most of the yarns are in front, while miscellaneous and extra tools are in the back half of the pouch<\/p><\/div>\n

Why a “flexible” woven container instead of a rigid, wooden one?\u00a0 So that I can travel with it across town, across the inlet or across the continent.\u00a0 It is light-weight and easily packable – a valuable resource for a weaver in motion.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for future blog entries of additional Chilkat weaving equipment and tools.<\/p>\n

Thank you for visiting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things that I encourage my weaving students to create in their lives is organization.\u00a0 If we want to be an active Chilkat weaver, and we want to keep our sanity while weaving, we must be organized!\u00a0 If we are not born organized, Chilkat weaving will change that part of ourselves to become […]<\/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":[13,29,50,150],"tags":[62,7,52,98,8,123],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes-retreats-apprentices","category-latest-art-projects","category-tlingit-cultural-events","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-alaskan-artists","tag-chilkat","tag-chilkat-weaving","tag-northwest-coast-tlingit-native-art","tag-ravenstail","tag-ravenstail-weaving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","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=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}