Most of us were in the "Pacific North West" exhibition...
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| Yellow spruce and cedar root cloak collected on Capt Vancouver's 1791-5 expedition |
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| Chilcat blanket - a very complicated weaving technique |
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| Judith's masks |
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| Najlaa's modern glass bowl |
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| Sue's mask and rattle |
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| Carol's collection |
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| Janet K's wood carving |
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| Jo's little wood sculpture |
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| Janet B - a Greek horse |
Looks like I missed a good session but I thought of you all when sketching in Greece,some amazing clay masks in Sparta museum.
ReplyDeleteMargaret,
ReplyDeleteI admire the Chilkat weaving a lot and the designs are complex. While the weaving itself is time consuming, twining is not a complex technique. Because the designs are curvalinear, they are sometimes surprising to weavers who think in terms of the grid.
http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/unpacking-phrase-chilkat-blanket
Diane