Reviving Tsimshian Weaving With Threads of Community

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Reviving Tsimshian Weaving With Threads of Community

This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.It’s a warm day in October 2023 in Shelton, Washington. The sky is blue with one or two wispy clouds. I’m sitting with my friend, my teacher, my matriarch Shu Gayna (Donna May Roberts). Tendrils of her short black hair curl around her ears and above the f…