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Sheep's wool, or mah-too-EHL-kel, [citation needed] is the most common material used for modern Salish weaving. Some knitters still buy shorn fleeces and go through most of the traditional preparation, but most buy the washed and carded wool directly from a commercial carding mill. [7]
Salish weaving continued to a lesser extent, but the weavers largely transitioned to using sheep's wool yarn brought to the area by traders, as it was less costly than keeping the salmon-eating woolly dogs. [13] There was a revival of Salish weaving in the 1960s, and the Salish Weavers Guild was formed in 1971. [14]
The Salish Weavers Guild was a formal society focused on the production and sales of local Salish Weavers from all areas of Stó:lō territory in and around the Fraser Valley. The Guild was successful in inspiring Stó:lō culture, art, education, and community and came as a result of the Salish Weaving revival of the 1960s.
The distinctively patterned, heavy-knit Cowichan sweaters, popular among British Columbians and tourists, are produced using this method. Cowichan knitting is an acculturated art form, a combination of European textile techniques and Salish spinning and weaving methods. From this union, new tools, techniques and designs developed over the years.
She teaches Salish weaving techniques to children, teenagers and adults: taught at Birkland Brothers Wool Shop, through the Urban Weavers project, through MOA and the Vancouver School Board. [13] Sparrow gives demonstrations and public talks at venues such as the Greater Vancouver Weavers and Spinners Guild [14] and the Bill Reid Gallery. [15]
Salish peoples, renowned for their weaving and knitting, [4] did not raise sheep, and while mountain goat fur was also used to create wool textiles, mountain goats were wild, and thus their fur could only be collected from mountain goats leaving fur in the environment, such as from shedding, or collected from skins of hunted goats.
Coast Salish are peoples from the Pacific Northwest Coast made up of many different languages and cultural characteristics. Coast Salish territory covers the coast of British Columbia and Washington state. Within traditional Coast Salish art there are two major forms; the flat design and carving, and basketry and weaving.
The Quinault (/ k w ɪ ˈ n ɒ l t / or / k w ɪ ˈ n ɔː l t /, kʷínayɬ) are a group of Native American peoples from western Washington in the United States.They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people and are enrolled in the federally recognized Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation.