Association Soierie Vivante
Working silk-trim workshop with carved walnut Jacquard looms, preserved exactly as weavers left it.
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This guide to Association Soierie Vivante steps into a Croix-Rousse passementerie workshop where silk weavers, the canuts, once cut trims on walnut Jacquard looms threaded with punched cards. It follows the wage disputes that pushed weavers to march under a black flag in October 1831, and the artillery-answered barricades of the bloody week three years later. Look closely at the punched cards still threaded through the loom in front of you, unchanged since the weavers who worked beneath it.
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