Atelier de soierie - BROCHIER SOIERIES

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.