Rare blanket containing mostly woolly dog wool.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Moving
I am moving. This blog will stay, fixed in place and time. However, my new site will have a blog menu to take you to all my blogs plus a few other items. It will be live by December 2020.
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Saturday, January 10, 2015
Xul'si'malt
[Photot of Harry Xul'si'malt Manson |
It is quite the story and the story spans over 100 years. It is a story of racism, a lost father, a recovering drug addict falling out of the sky, the finding of a grandfather, the restitution of his reputation and recognition on a national scale. The story has been covered by others: CBC news did a story which you can read here and The Current did a show that you can hear here, and you can watch the video documentary on the story here and watch the induction here and the actual induction with Gary and his family singing the Celebration song here.
Gary inherited his grandfather's name, so this event is especially important to him but also to all his family.
[Photo by Mark Kaarremaa] Gary Xul'si'malt Manson |
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Tim Horton's Warms Up Snowy Canadian Town with Surprise Yarn-Bombing
This is one of the best yarn - bombings ever:
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Norah's mittens
[Photo: Liz H-K] A brisk November morning
with 12 volunteer happy hot hands for a photoshoot
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Norah doesn't do anything half heart-ed and I mean anything (cooking, gardening, biking, etc.)! Take her sweaters, she doesn't just design the sweaters, she designs the very fabric, then makes the fabric (she makes knitted fabric which looks like woven), fulls the fabric, designs the sweater, designs the trim, sews it together, designs and makes the buttons! Then uses the fabric remains to make matching mittens. And then attends only juried craft shows and sells them and boy do they sell!
[Photo: Liz H-K] A pile of sweaters ready for steaming.
[Photo: Liz H-K] And a pile of
freshly steamed vests.
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Mountain Goat
[Photo by Mark Kaarremaa] |
[Photo Chilcat yarn - mtn goat wool around cedar. Photo by Mark Kaarremaa] |
Mtn. goat Oreamnos americanus is actually in the antelope family, not in the goat family. First Nations such as the Chilkat Tlingit people used the wool to make their famous Chilkat blankets. They spun mtn goat wool around thin strips of cedar.
[Photo by Liz H-K, Chilcat Blanket made from mtn goat wool. CMC] |
Wool was collected in the wild where the goats shed the fur in late spring. Alternatively, the goats were hunted and the pelts were moistened, then rolled up with the fur inside for a few days before unrolling and pulling the fur out of the hide.
[Photo by Liz H-K, Coast Salish Blanket made from mtn goat wool CMC#VIG250] |
[Photo -Mtn goat near Banff. You can see his wool starting to moult. Photo by Mark Kaarremaa] |
Labels:
Coast Salish,
Coast Salish Textiles,
First Nations,
Mtn goat
Thursday, November 27, 2014
This blog lives
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