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...
Jun 27, 2022 | Karen Taug Learns Chilkat Weaving From Lily Hope
I’m well on my way now, not without a few stops along the way. The black boarder was woven 1 ½ inches, and with the size of the weaver wool it seemed like it took a very long time to get done. I kept track of the actual weaving time, which was 47 hours to weave the...
May 2, 2022 | Karen Taug Learns Chilkat Weaving From Lily Hope
Now begins the preparation of the loom where the warp is hung. The number of warps is determined by 1] the width per inch of the warp, in my robe it is 7 warps per inch; 2] the width of the weaving – in the case of the child’s Chilkat robe I’m making has 210 warps...
Apr 14, 2022 | Karen Taug Learns Chilkat Weaving From Lily Hope
Chilkat robes require quite a bit of preparation before the weaver can even begin weaving. Our ancestors would gather goat wool from the mountains in the spring and the clean and spin the wool with bark. This is the “Warp” that is used to hang from the...
