France · Silk weaving; Trimmings craft; Lyon heritage
Passementerie Lyonnaise
The making of silk trimmings — fringes (franges); tassels (glands); braid (galon); cord (cordon); and passements (decorative trimming elements) — in the Lyon tradition. Lyon passementerie supplied French royal palaces and haute couture with the finishing details that complete luxurious interiors: the tassel on a throne room curtain; the braid on a marshal's uniform; the fringe on an altar cloth. Each element requires hand-assembly from individual woven components.
Risk level: Endangered · Not listed
The Lyon fabrique — the merchant-manufacturer system that organized Lyon silk production from the 16th to early 20th century.
The making of the toile — the first muslin prototype from which the haute couture pattern is developed — by moulage (draping directly on the dress form) or flat patternmaking.
Flat-woven wool tapestry on a horizontal low-warp loom (basse-lisse), worked from a cartoon placed beneath the warp.
The hand sewing of haute couture garments — a tradition of specific stitch types (point de Paris; point de croix; surjet; faufilage; invisible hem) that produce seams and finishes invisible from the outside but structurally superior to…
Flat-woven wool tapestry on a vertical high-warp loom (haute-lisse), worked from a cartoon hung behind the warp.
The cutting and laying of wood veneer marquetry — pictorial and geometric patterns assembled from thin wood veneers and inlaid into furniture surfaces — in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine workshops, Paris's historic cabinet-making district.
The daily tapping of wild rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis, seringueira) along a fixed forest circuit (estrada de seringa) connecting 100 to 200 trees, and the transformation of the collected latex — traditionally boiled into export balls,…
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A family of woven textile traditions from Sardinia — including the kilim-like pibiones (knotted pile carpet), the sargia (flat-woven striped wool), and the orbace (heavy fulled wool cloth) — using locally raised sheep wool dyed with…
The cutting and sewing of made-to-measure shirts, trousers and suits in Singapore by family-run shophouse tailors, a trade built by Chinese migrant tailors from the 1880s.
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