{"id":4509,"date":"2014-10-05T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T03:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2014-10-07T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T03:23:57","slug":"4-year-old-grand-daughter-spins-warp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/4-year-old-grand-daughter-spins-warp\/","title":{"rendered":"4-Year Old Grand-daughter Spins Warp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4510\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SpinChilkatWarp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4510\" class=\"wp-image-4510 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SpinChilkatWarp.jpg\" alt=\"SpinChilkatWarp\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SpinChilkatWarp.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SpinChilkatWarp-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4-year-old Amelie Soleil Haas spins Chilkat warp on her thigh for the first time<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the past two days, Amelie has come into Grandma Rissy&#8217;s studio and has seen me splitting cedar bark, getting it all ready to begin spinning yards of warp for my next projects.\u00a0 Amelie tried her hand at splitting bark last week, and to my surprise she was darn good adept at it.\u00a0 Today, she surprised me even more when she asked if she could spin the warp, to which of course I said &#8220;sure, why not?&#8221; and I only had to show her one time and gave her all the pointers like I do my weaving students, and voile&#8217; she was a natural !\u00a0\u00a0 She spun like she had been doing it all her life (only 4 years!).\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if I felt so much pride in my life&#8230;!\u00a0 Then again, she IS my grand-daughter and I suppose that&#8217;s what Grandmas are supposed to feel like!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4511\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PreparedSplitBark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4511\" class=\"wp-image-4511 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PreparedSplitBark.jpg\" alt=\"PreparedSplitBark\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PreparedSplitBark.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PreparedSplitBark-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarissa is touching the large coil of cedar bark BEFORE it is split into the thin strips as shown<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After I cook all the sap out of the cedar bark, I split the coils of cedar into very fine strips.\u00a0 Each fine strip is then spun with the wool on our thighs to create the warp (the verticle-hanging yarns on the weaving loom).\u00a0 It took me 26 hours to split about a pound of cedar bark; I did it in 2.5 days&#8230;(while watching a Netflix television series, of course!).\u00a0 Watching a movie or television series, helps me to &#8220;getterdun!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two days, Amelie has come into Grandma Rissy&#8217;s studio and has seen me splitting cedar bark, getting it all ready to begin spinning yards of warp for my next projects.\u00a0 Amelie tried her hand at splitting bark last week, and to my surprise she was darn good adept at it.\u00a0 Today, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29,55,4,50,150],"tags":[338,145,122,7,52,100,98,8,123],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes-retreats-apprentices","category-latest-art-projects","category-family-friends-relatives","category-northwest-coast-art-shows-and-art-exhibits","category-tlingit-cultural-events","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-amelie-soleil-haas","tag-cedar-bark","tag-cedar-bark-weaving","tag-chilkat","tag-chilkat-weaving","tag-native-american-art","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\/4509","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=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}