From the Seattle Times Jan 28, 2007:

Revered elder Vi Hilbert of the Upper Skagit tribe, seated, is assisted by Susan Pavel in donning the Coast Salish mountain-goat-hair blanket Pavel wove. Photo by Alan Berner - Seattle Times

With prayer and song, tribal members from around the region Saturday named and blessed the first known hand-twined mountain-goat-hair blanket made in Puget Sound country in generations.

The art was retained by a few master weavers, including the late Bruce Miller, a Skokomish spiritual leader known as subiyay, who passed the art on to his apprentice, Susan Pavel. Pavel, who made the blanket, brought it out in a joyous ceremony at the longhouse at The Evergreen State College. The one-of-a-kind blanket will hang in the new addition of the Seattle Art Museum, which is scheduled to open in May.

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The blanket is a triumph of an ongoing quiet renaissance in Coast Salish weaving carried on by Indian and non-Indian weavers from Vancouver Island to Puget Sound and the Washington coast. “One of the great acts of survival is to adapt Salish weaving that had waned for quite a period of time,” said Michael Pavel, Susan’s husband and Miller’s nephew. Michael Pavel spent 12 years gathering the wool for the blanket, tuft by tuft. It took Susan Pavel about six months to weave it.

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The blanket was presented in a procession of weavers from the region, each wearing woolen vests, dresses and other regalia they wove themselves.

“It’s something I never thought I would see in my lifetime,” said Susan Pavel, who, as a weaving teacher, had hoped to attend an event at which people wore regalia they had woven.