About

This class has been postponed to the Fall or next Spring.

The Salish Peoples of the Puget Sound Region have always been known as Weaving Cultures.  Suquamish Weaver, Nancy Sigo, will share her wealth of knowledge about weaving with Western Red Cedar. 

In this workshop:

• Students will learn the cedar splitting techniques and how to prepare those cedar strips for weaving.
• Students will then use the cedar strips they prepared, along with the cedar strips in the materials kits Nancy will provide, to weave beautiful, individualized fitted woven visors.
• Students will learn the techniques of basic weaving and twining and will learn about shaping and design as they craft their own useful visors.

Materials: $125.  The materials fee are for both the cedar materials students will learn to split and prepare, as well as already prepared cedar strips by the Instructor, Nancy Sigo.

Skill Level: Universal.  All skill levels welcome.

Ages: Ages 14+ Welcome.

Bring a bag lunch. We have a refrigerator for people to store their lunches and drinks!

Instructor Bio:  Nancy Sigo, a member of the Suquamish Tribe, learned to gather, process, prepare and weave cedar bark; in the time honored cultural practice of using native plant fibers to weave traditional material objects for a wide variety of functional uses. Over 26 years ago, Nancy began to learn from her relatives all aspects of how to weave with Western Red Cedar, and many other weaving materials like Bear grass, NW Sweet Grass, Rye Grass, and Nettles. Nancy shares important knowledge from her own life experiences and her Salish weaving culture. When, where, and how to gather; how to process and store the materials, so many lessons to learn. Nancy feels very blessed with the gift of weaving from a long line of grandmother teachers.  She looks forward to meeting others who share a desire to learn this type of weaving and will gladly share that knowledge.