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 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 ...
Neither the large mountain goat wool spindle nor the smaller sheep's wool spindle are much-used today; the majority of spinners prefer to use machines. After ...
... 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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Mountain goat hair, the hair of a special dog bred for its hair5 and plant varieties were collected, processed and spun or woven into clothing, blankets and ...
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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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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Aug 17, 2017 · The Cowichan People wove blankets and clothing out of various fibres but did not knit prior to European contact.
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Orchard (1926) originally identified the warp of this blanket as mountain goat wool and the weft as possibly dog hair, while Gustafson's (1980) reanalysis ...
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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 ...