Mountain goat hair, the hair of a special dog bred for its hair 5 and plant varieties were collected, processed and spun or woven into clothing, blankets and ...
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Since time immemorial Coast Salish women wove blankets with a wool composed of mountain goat hair mixed with the hair of (now extinct) wool dogs. The blankets ...
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... mountain goat wool, dog hair, and other fibres. The wool was spun with a spindle and whorl, and the blankets were woven on a two-bar loom. There is ...
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Sheep wool came to replace mountain goat hair and plant fibres. There is evidence to suggest that the Coast Salish maintained their own sheep herds for several ...
As the lore of their people tell, they have been weaving clothing for thousands of years using dog hair or mountain goat wool. ... use this new fiber in their ...
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Oct 22, 2018 · Origin. Before European contact, Cowichan women wove blankets out of mountain goat and dog hair, with the oldest surviving remnants dating ...
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Goat hair blanket, Cowichan. Date unknown, location unknown. Image D-08939, courtesy of the Royal. BC Museum and Archives. !132. ARTiculate Vol. 2, Spring ...
Aug 17, 2017 · The art of Cowichan Knitting is a unique fibre art developed by the Cowichan Tribes, who have lived in their Traditional ...
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Notable examples are the Salish large spindle, which employs a tossing motion (Kissell 1916) and was used with mountain goat and dog wool, and the Indian Head ...
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