Dec 12, 2022 | Gwen Sauser Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch, Uncategorized
I have heard of Chilkat Robes as being called the “veil between the worlds.” I couldn’t help but think of those words early on, especially sitting there and looking at my warp hanging from my loom. It looked lonely without the weft being woven...
Dec 3, 2022 | Cara Gilbert Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch
I work in an office that is several hundred feet from my father’s childhood home. I gaze at the same ocean, the same mountains, that my father, grandmother, great-grandmother gazed upon before me. I can hear the echo of their laughter, of their heartache as it calls...
Dec 3, 2022 | Cara Gilbert Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch
As the tide ebbs and flows, I am taken back to a time when my father was small. I can almost see him and Jeff David as small boys out on their little raft on the big ocean. I can see my grandmother and Cecilia (Jeff’s mother) standing on the beach, heart in throats,...
Dec 3, 2022 | Cara Gilbert Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch
My life is currently in flux. Too many things, all at once. Moving, packing, getting our house ready to sell (and yes, it is taking us a while. I never knew one had to grieve a place, but it was our first real home as a married couple. Not a rental our home. It has...
Dec 3, 2022 | Cara Gilbert Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch
Gwen and I visited Juneau and attended a weaver’s conference. We both had a blast. It was wonderful to be with other weavers and see what they were working on. Gwen and I hadn’t planned on setting up a table, but we ended up setting up a table and working on our warp....
Dec 1, 2022 | Zack James Learns Carving from Wayne Price
The first step in working on a large project like a totem pole, house post or dugout canoe, is to find a space that can accommodate a monumental scale project. There are several criteria that need to be met in a space. The space needs to be large enough, this includes...
Nov 29, 2022 | Rob Martin Learns Silverworking From Greg Horner
Feels like as fast as it started it is fast coming to a end. Nothing like finishing the apprenticeship with wrap around rings. With this we do some more metal forging. Take some half round thick gage wire and hammer it on each side with two different hammer elongating...
Nov 28, 2022 | Rob Martin Learns Silverworking From Greg Horner
Ok,Let’s make a belt buckle. I had some extra silver from the pendant I cut out in 18 gauge that I normally use for bracelets. Thought yeah I can do another pendant. Or I can turn this big piece of precious metal into a belt buckle. Yeah, let’s do it. I have never...
Nov 28, 2022 | Rob Martin Learns Silverworking From Greg Horner
Making my my first halibut pendant Greg and I were looking forward to the next project. Something that involved a little bit of metal forming along with soldering. Greg came up with the idea of a Halibut pendant. Ok, so I head back home and start studying Halibuts....
Nov 1, 2022 | Karen Taug Learns Chilkat Weaving From Lily Hope
It’s been a while since I have written about my apprenticeship. Between subsistence gathering and traveling up into the Yukon I haven’t woven as much as I would have liked. I have progressed ever so slowly though. I’ve moved down into the design field of the...
