Marion Carman’s 2 grandaughters had the opportunity to help weave a Chilkat robe ...

It was not a pretty robe when it arrived at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage last spring. The tassels were frayed and twisted, the colors faded. The Tlingit ceremonial garment called a ...

Lily Hope and her family are continuing her mother’s work for an important cause. The daughter of late acclaimed Chilkat and Ravenstail weaver Clarissa Rizal, Hope is an award-winning Tlingit weaver ...

Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving is a skill and an artform that was almost abandoned in northwestern Canada. Now it is undergoing a renaissance. It began with Clarissa Rizal, from Juneau, Alaska. 25 ...

Ricky Tagaban has a garbage bag of mountain goat wool and $7,500 in award money. Tagaban, a Chilkat weaver and drag queen, of Juneau is a recipient of a Rasmuson Foundation’s 2018 Individual Artist ...

Anna Brown Ehlers still remembers her early impressions of the art form she has made her life’s devotion. Ehlers, a Juneau artist, has spent much of the past 30 years practicing the art of Chilkat ...

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Tlingit artist Lily Hope dresses the collectible toy monsters in outfits inspired by traditional Ravenstail and Chilkat weaving practices passed on by her elders. Alaskan Chilkat and Ravenstail Weaver ...

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. In Juneau, ...

It has long been forbidden for men to weave in the Chilkat tradition, but Tlingit artist Ricky Tagaban is an exception. Using techniques practiced for thousands of years, Tagaban creates his trademark ...