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.

Wednesday’s event was both a ceremony and a history lesson on Chilkat weaving, which is known as one of the most complex weaving techniques in the world and in recent years was considered to be ...

Anna Brown Ehlers’ artistic mastery in Chilkat weaving has earned her a place as one of the nine recipients of a 2017 National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) National Heritage Fellowship.

Whether they came to Alaska or remained in British Columbia, Tsimshian people released the practice of weaving Chilkat ceremonial dancing blankets, along with all our ceremonial arts, due to ...

The tassels were frayed and twisted, the colors faded. The Tlingit ceremonial garment called a Naaxein or Chilkat robe was born from the hands of a Tlingit weaver around the year 1900. The weaving is ...

The process of weaving a robe takes months, and tests a weaver’s patience. One of the essential texts on the art form, George T. Emmons, “The Chilkat Blanket,” was written in 1907 and delves ...

A tradition which originated with the Tsimshian tribe, Chilkat weaving is now practiced by traditional Tlingit weavers in the Chilkat Valley of Alaska. The distinctive pieces combine imagery from ...

Ehlers, a Juneau artist, has spent much of the past 30 years practicing the art of Chilkat weaving, an intricate form that has become an iconic cultural symbol for Tlingit people and other ...

Hope, of Juneau, Alaska, has been practicing Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving since she was a teenager, having learned from her mother, Clarissa Rizal (Tlingit). “If I wanted to spend time with ...

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A one-of-a-kind Chilkat LGBTQ+ Youth Pride robe will be revealed during the Grand Entrance. A total of six mentor weavers have been working on the “Weaving Our Pride” project since July 2023.