Jan 4, 2023 | Gwen Sauser Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch, Uncategorized
I often listen to podcasts or books while I am weaving. Tonight, as I finished-up my very last braid on my Chilkat Face, the speaker who came on happened to be an Inuit elder. As I was bringing my weaving to a close, he started speaking about circles and journeys....
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...
Oct 22, 2022 | Gwen Sauser Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch, Uncategorized
In just a few months our apprenticeship ends. It’s kind of hard to believe, though we still have a lot yet to accomplish. We are currently working on weaving a Chilkat Face, as well as weaving another circle piece. Marsha says it’s important to get that...
Aug 9, 2022 | Gwen Sauser Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch, Uncategorized
It’s been a little while since I have blogged. Words have sat in my heart, thoughts roamed my mind questioning, learning, open. We have spent hours studying, working, dyeing weft, cleaning goat wool to make traditional warp mixed with yellow cedar and...
Jun 1, 2022 | Gwen Sauser Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch, Uncategorized
Last summer Dad, a family friend, and I heard the sockeye were running so we hopped into the boat and went fishing out on the Chilkoot side. I remember the cool salty air against my face, the spray of the water, sitting while the net lay in the depths, waiting and...
May 9, 2022 | Gwen Sauser Learns Chilkat Weaving From Marsha Hotch
We visited The Alaska State Museum in Juneau, AK in order to study some of the robes in their collection. I wasn’t too sure what to expect when we went, but the experience exceeded my expectations. Ellen Carrlee, the conservator there, first took us to a room...
