Atelier de soierie - BROCHIER SOIERIES
Working silk-printing workshop hand-printing fabric on vintage frames and carved wooden blocks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Brochier silk workshop in Lyon's Croix-Rousse district follows Cedric Brochier's discovery of a silent hand loom in his own family's attic, and the years he spent marrying it to a Jacquard mechanism inherited from an ancestor. It also traces the neighborhood's canut weavers, who lived beside their looms and rose up against the merchants who set their pay in the eighteen thirties, seizing the streets with a cry of their own. Listen for the loom, if it is running.
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