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.

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 ...

Sakoon Donedin Jackson showing her robe to language nest students. Chilkat robe weaving on Jan. 30, 2023 in preparation for First Dance & upcoming art show. Jan. 30, 2023. (Photo by Tasha Elizarde ...

The Alaska State Museum broke new ground this year — not on the new building, but inside it, where Chilkat weaver Anna Brown Ehlers has been restoring a 100-year-old diving whale dancing blanket ...

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 ...

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 ...