{"id":6518,"date":"2016-08-17T02:26:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T02:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=6518"},"modified":"2016-08-17T02:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T02:35:45","slug":"update-weavers-across-the-waters-chilkat-ravenstail-robe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/update-weavers-across-the-waters-chilkat-ravenstail-robe\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: “Weavers Across the Waters” Chilkat Ravenstail Robe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grand-daughters Simone and Amelie Haas always made a daily check-up on the status of the hanging slip knots; it\u2019s good to allow the little people to come visit and \u201cplay\u201d with the yarns (under supervision of course). Clarissa\u2019s Chilkat weaving teacher and mentor, Jennie Thlunaut had told Clarissa the story about how when she was 5 years old, she would \u201cplay\u201d with her mother\u2019s warp and weft as it hung on the loom. Whatever children play with and enjoy when they are young is most likely what they will do for a living when they are adults<\/p><\/div>\n

A month ago, I finally began weaving the borders that will frame the “Weavers Across the Waters” Chilkat\/Ravenstail robe. \u00a0I did not wait for all the 5×5 squares to arrive, though I had received more than half of the 54 committed donations then. \u00a0The following is a photo essay of the process:<\/p>\n

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Using the traditional warp stick (fashioned after Jennie Thlunaut\u2019s), Clarissa measures out the length of the strands for the side borders<\/p><\/div>\n

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Clarissa uses the length of a book that measures (close to the) exact length she needs for the top border of the robe<\/p><\/div>\n

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Inspired by Teahonna James’ 5×5, here is the first color combo of the top border of the “Weavers Across the Waters” Chilkat and Ravenstail ceremonial robe<\/p><\/div>\n

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The top border of the \u2018Weavers Across the Waters\u2019 Chilkat\/Ravenstail robe<\/p><\/div>\n

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The beginning of the yellow border (Traditionally, a black border was woven and the a yellow border; Clarissa took the liberty of \u201cjazzing up\u201d the black and yellow borders. Notice there are no horizontal braids between the yellow and black borders. Clarissa plans on replacing the horizontal braids with a row of white Mother-of-Pearl buttons instead<\/p><\/div>\n

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Prepared slip knotted strands hang from the lightly-stablizing cross bar; instead of using your good weaving hours to make slip knots, it\u2019s always best to prepare the strands while visiting with folks, or while taking a bath, and choose a discreet seat when you make slip knots at a funeral<\/p><\/div>\n

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Notice the laptop close at hand, along with the basket of yarns and of course when you need to remind yourself of certain tasks, or you have an idea of another project or you just remembered your grocery list, keep your notebooks (daily planner, sketch book, pocket notebook, etc.) at hand at all times near your weaving loom<\/p><\/div>\n

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Three generations of weavers begin weaving the side borders of the “Weavers Across the Waters” Chilkat and Ravenstail robe: Ursala demonstrates her innovative fingering techniques to her daughter, Amelie and her mother, Clarissa.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The borders of the \u201cWeavers Across the Waters\u201d Chilkat and Ravenstail robe; the small white diamonds were a suggestion by my daughter, weaver Lily Hope<\/p><\/div>\n

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Clarissa and Ursala weave the side borders of the \u201cWeavers Across the Waters\u201d Chilkat\/Ravenstail robe<\/p><\/div>\n

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Teahonna James weaves the last couple of inches of the side borders<\/p><\/div>\n

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The side borders required hours of commitment. Clarissa measured her length of time to the inch; it takes her 1 hour to weave 1 inch. This translates to an estimate of 1-1\/2\u201d hours per inch for Ursala and\/or Teahonna to achieve. In the foreground are all the squares being sewn together by Clarissa<\/p><\/div>\n

For the initial project launch, invite, purpose, design specs and who are the ‘weavers across the waters’ who have volunteered to be a part of this project, please visit previous blog posts on my website, at:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Click here for Recent update before this <\/a>current blog post<\/p>\n

Click here for the launch, invite, design specs\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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A month ago, I finally began weaving the borders that will frame the “Weavers Across the Waters” Chilkat\/Ravenstail robe. \u00a0I did not wait for all the 5×5 squares to arrive, though I had received more than half of the 54 committed donations then. \u00a0The following is a photo essay of the process: For the initial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[20,13,29,23,50],"tags":[90,62,7,52,36,100,98,8,123,238,205],"class_list":["post-6518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels-adventures","category-classes-retreats-apprentices","category-latest-art-projects","category-photo-essays-of-alaska","category-tlingit-cultural-events","tag-alaska-native-art","tag-alaskan-artists","tag-chilkat","tag-chilkat-weaving","tag-jennie-thlunaut","tag-native-american-art","tag-northwest-coast-tlingit-native-art","tag-ravenstail","tag-ravenstail-weaving","tag-teahonna-james","tag-ursala-hudson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}