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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

At its simplest, weaving involves passing horizontal weft threads or strands through a series of vertical warps. As a complex art, it creates naaxein, or Chilkat robes, delicate Aleut baskets ...

“So this means that synthetic dyes were incorporated into Chilkat weaving all along, at least for the weavings in the Alaska State Museum and the Sean Jackson Museum,” Carrlee said ...

The money comes from an agency known as the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which provides funding to ...

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The Klukwan Library has reduced its hours from 35 to four and canceled all future events amid federal funding cuts. For thirty-five hours each week at the Klukwan Library, people study, check out ...