Isabella Rorick

Isabel Rorick is an internationally renowned spruce root weaver and was born in Old Masset, Haida Gwaii into the Raven moiety, Yahgu’7laanaas. Isabel comes from an unbroken line of Haida weavers on both sides of her family: her mother, Primrose Adams is a weaver along with her grandmother Florence Edenshaw Davidson and great grandmother, Isabella Edenshaw, a well-known weaver of fine baskets and hats from the late 1800s. Isabel first learned to weave from her paternal grandmother, Selina Peratrovich. She wove her first hat in 1982.