The child-sized Chilkat dancing robe made by the students was inspired both in both spirit and skill by the renowned master weavers Jennie Thlunaut and Clarissa Rizal, Hope’s late mother ...

Chilkat weaving has been practiced for hundreds of years by Indigenous people on the Northwest Coast. The intricate design is a kind of woven record, documenting history and clan migration.

When she sold her final Chilkat blanket in 1985, famed Tlingit weaver Jennie Thlunaut wrote a notarized note to the buyer, Dr. Robert Page. In the note, Thlunaut wrote that she was “the last of ...

She was pointing at a small circle woven into the middle of a rectangle on the back of a newly-donated Chilkat robe, admiring the craftsmanship. “Those women were such geniuses to make a circle ...

Dating all the way back to 1950 when the Rahr-West Art Museum was founded, a Chilkat blanket has been part of its permanent collection, with photographic evidence connecting the blanket to the ...

This undated photo shows Anna Brown Ehlers, right, and her daughter wearing Chilkat blankets she wove. (Photo courtesy of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie/National Endowment for the Arts) Chilkat weaver ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Master Chilkat weaver Kerri Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw, Haida, Tlingit, Kootenay), whose artistry fused traditional ...