THE CONSERVATION OF A TLINGIT BLANKET

Abstract

A fine example of the early and extremely rare finger-woven blankets produced by the Tlingit people of the North West Coast of America, which has been in the collections of the British Museum since the middle of the nineteenth century, has recently been the subject of preservative treatment by the author. The specimen (Fig. 1), which measures approximately 1-5 x 1-2 m (including the fringe), was woven into a near semicircular shape. Strands of beaten-out cedar bark, some twisted, others not, form the warp, while the single-strand wefts, used in pairs, pass under and over alternate warps and each other; a technique identical to that called 'twining' in basketry. The extensions of both warp and weft threads, beyond the extremities of the main woven section which forms the blanket, were formed by the weaver into an openwork edging strip

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