{"id":2590,"date":"2012-07-22T18:53:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T14:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2012-07-29T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T14:44:44","slug":"vanessa-morgan-learns-chilkat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/vanessa-morgan-learns-chilkat\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Morgan Learns Chilkat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vanessa begins weaving the eyebrows of her Chilkat leggings<\/p><\/div>\n

Vanessa Morgan and I have been trying to coordinate a Summer for her return to complete her Chilkat leggings.\u00a0 Finally, our schedules coincided\u00a0 almost 7 years later!<\/p>\n

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When she needs a break from weaving Vanessa spins warp for the other project she wants to begin weaving during this apprenticeship: a child-size Chilkat robe<\/p><\/div>\n

Vanessa is Ganada (Frog) Clan from Gitwinksihlkw (Canyon City)\/Ging<\/span>olx (Kincolith) on the Nass River in British Columbia, Canada.\u00a0 She is from the original tribe of the Nass, the Nishga’a (meaning “mighty people of the Nass”).\u00a0 Chilkat weaving originated on the Nass and was retained by the Tlingit in the Chilkat Valley.\u00a0 It is most fitting the two of us work together to help return the Chilkat weaving back to the Nishga’a of the Nass River.<\/p>\n

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Setting in the braids to begin weaving the bridge of the nose<\/p><\/div>\n

Vanessa has a retail shop offering clothing and other items adorned with Northwest Coast Native designs.\u00a0 The first day she walked into my studio, she claimed she is going to convert her space into a weaving studio AND a weaver’s supply and equipment outlet.\u00a0 I haven’t met anyone else who is determined to create a physical and online store supplying weavers of the Northwest Coast with necessary equipment and supplies; we are excited about this! \u00a0 We are both working on creating an outlet, hers will be in the “South” (B.C. area down to Washington State) and mine will be in the “North” serving Southeast Alaska and Yukon.\u00a0 Stay tuned for the “openings” of both the North and South wings of the “Northwest Coast Indigenous Weaving Shop.”<\/p>\n

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The weaving room…Clarissa’s leggings are on her loom to the left; one is on a separate heading bar on the backside of the loom, the other is on the front as shown…Clarissa demonstrates on her leggings to avoid demonstrating on Vanessa’s\u00a0 which means there is no ripping back the demonstration….see?\u00a0 see?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Using the Chilkat weaving warp stick, fashioned after the late master weaver, Jennie Thlunaut, Vanessa measures the last few strands of warp<\/p><\/div>\n

There is nothing like weaving a Chlkat robe.\u00a0 The ancestral ties are strong.\u00a0 The “veil between the worlds” is thin.\u00a0 For many of us indigenous weavers, the feeling is a spiritual communion with all the weavers of the past, present and even the future as all time seems to meld into one.<\/p>\n

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The process of hanging the warp on your loom is called “dressing the loom”<\/p><\/div>\n

Some may wonder why I would start a beginner apprentice on a Chlkat robe?\u00a0\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 In my book, this is my thinking:\u00a0 An apprentice is a person who is dedicated to”remembering” that which is already in her; someone who already knows what she wants and is determined to do and be the things that is required of\u00a0 a true weaver; she\u00a0 is willing to carry on this tradition for the well-being of herself, family and community.\u00a0 So what if the beginning of the robe the weaving shows her incompetent, imperfect talent?\u00a0\u00a0 We have to start somewhere.\u00a0 Vanessa will learn everything there is to learn about weaving a Chilkat robe.\u00a0 And best yet, weaving the width of the top border of the robe enables the beginner weaver to get in the groove and rhythm of the weft yarns flowing through the warp\u00a0 to achieve Jennie’s unique fingering technique – like Jennie said “…you get my fingering, you get 1\/2 of your work licked!”<\/p>\n

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Vanessa spent the first day dressing her loom and weaving the first few rows of white – she spent the entire second day weaving her black border – the definition of a day is about 10-16 hours<\/p><\/div>\n

Stay tuned for Vanessa’s progress on her leggings and her Chilkat robe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vanessa Morgan and I have been trying to coordinate a Summer for her return to complete her Chilkat leggings.\u00a0 Finally, our schedules coincided\u00a0 almost 7 years later! Vanessa is Ganada (Frog) Clan from Gitwinksihlkw (Canyon City)\/Gingolx (Kincolith) on the Nass River in British Columbia, Canada.\u00a0 She is from the original tribe of the Nass, the […]<\/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":[13,19],"tags":[7,52,36,100],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes-retreats-apprentices","category-honoring-others","tag-chilkat","tag-chilkat-weaving","tag-jennie-thlunaut","tag-native-american-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","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=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}