Evelyn Vanderhoop is a Pacific Northwest Coast textile weaver from the Haida Nation. She specializes in weaving the chief's robe of the Haida people. Raven's Tail(northern geometric weaving) and Naaxiin (Chilkat) are the two techniques she teaches and weaves. This site contains photographs and information about her work and current events.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Early 1800 history of missionary and land trading also Z and S twine def...
Monday, April 27, 2020
American traders documentation on fashions of the NWC
Sunday, April 26, 2020
American first fur traders Gray and Kendrick
Friday, April 24, 2020
Weaving and finishing a row, creating the right fringe as history is tol...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Weaving and demonstrating the rigid weft entry as well as speaking on th...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Weaving while speaking on Captain Cook's exploration
Monday, April 20, 2020
Demonstration and speaking on the first contact history
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Weaving demonstration and telling the similarity between Maori and NWC p...
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Friday, April 17, 2020
Weaving Demonstration while Talking about the Early Fur Trade Era
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Weaving ravenstail while telling of the power of designs
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
While demonstrating Evelyn tells a story where robes are woven and worn ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Entering a ravenstail weaving row, slip knot demo, and more on the trad...
Monday, April 13, 2020
Two color geometric weaving with fur trade history
Friday, April 10, 2020
I end and start a row of weaving while I tell a story of cultural use of robes.
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Rigid weft deomonstration and a story on the cultural use of robes
Demonstration of rigid weft technique
Demonstration of turning the corner of ravenstail braid
Weaving the vertical braids of ravenstail borders.
Braiding around the copper shield shape
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Weaving the side borders with both ravenstail and naaxiin (chilkat) tech...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Joins with braided three strand twining, naaxiin techniques
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