Chilkat weaving

Chilkat robes are worn by high-ranking tribal members on civic or ceremonial occasions, including dances.

Chilkat weaving can be applied to blankets, robes, dance tunics, aprons, leggings,[2] shirts, vests, bags, hats, and wall-hangings.

Traditionally mountain goat wool, dog fur, and yellow cedar bark are used in Chilkat weaving.

The designs used Northwest Coast formlines, a traditional aesthetic language made up of ovoid, U-form, and S-form elements[7] to create highly stylized, but representational, clan crests and figures from oral history—often animals and especially their facial features.

[10][11] Rizal and others worked to train a new generation of weavers, and since that time more individuals have begun weaving in the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian communities.