Gwen Sauser Learns Chilkat Weaving from Marsha Hotch

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....

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 through it yet.  I...

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 process...

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 hand-spinning...

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...