Harvesting, Processing Spruce Roots with Master Haida Weaver
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2025
- Follow master Haida weaver Delores Churchill into the woods and see how to harvest and process spruce roots, which is the first step in making a spruce-root basket. To get the roots needed for spruce-root weaving, Delores Churchill (Haida) and Hans Chester (Tlingit) show us the best places to look for spruce roots, what diameter the roots should be, how to strip the bark off, and how to split the root.
This is one in a series of videos that show all the steps of making a spruce-root basket. To view the full playlist go to • Spruce-Root Basketry
This series filmed a spruce-root weaving apprenticeship that SHI created to revitalize the ancient Northwest Coast art of spruce-root basketry. Learn more about the apprenticeship at www.sealaskaher...
The filming of this series was gifted to SHI by Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic as a way to give back to the cultures of the places their travelers visit. Gunalchéesh, Háw'aa, T'oyaxn, Thank You.
These videos are absolutely beautiful. I'm an ancient crafts artesan from Finland and I'm amazed how similar our heritage skills are to yours! Thank you so much for sharing. I hope these skills, with all their beauty, live on for a long time.
HI, first i would like to tank all of you for sharing your skill. Still have something I am not sure to well understand in spruce roots process.Do you just split your roots in half? Cause even if i use spruce roots who have a smaller diameter than a pen, I have the feeling that my roots are to big (after have been split in half) to can realize a good compact twining.So I woold like to know how tick and how wide the spruce roots need to be to do compact twinning. Tank you, Phil from the east coast,Tiohtià:ke (Montréal,Québec)
Looks like they split very small root. Smaller than a pencil for fine baskets. Bigger roots maybe for the uprights.
Is there a particular time of year that is best to collect the roots?
june