France · Silk weaving; Luxury textile; Lyon heritage
Brocart et Lampas de Lyon
The weaving of lampas and brocade — the two primary Lyon silk structures for furnishing and dress fabrics. Lampas is a compound weave where a supplementary weft floats over a ground structure to create a pattern visible on both faces (the pattern and ground interchange); brocade adds supplementary metallic or colored weft that appears only on the face (the reverse shows floating supplementary threads). Both require Jacquard programming that manages multiple weft systems simultaneously.
Risk level: Endangered · Not listed
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