France · Textile finishing; Silk craft; Lyon heritage
Apprêt et Décatissage de Soie Lyonnais
The finishing of woven and printed Lyon silk fabric — including calendering (passing through heated rollers to produce luster); decatizing (steam pressing to stabilize dimensions); and historically silk weighting (adding metallic salts to increase drape and weight). The finishing stage determines the final hand and appearance of Lyon silk — the same woven fabric can feel completely different depending on the finishing applied. Silk weighting (now largely discontinued for environmental reasons) was once the most commercially significant Lyon finishing technique.
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A contemporary studio practice by Karine, working as La Dentellière de Carton near Mougins on the French Riviera.
The pressing of Provence olive oil from the region's heritage olive varieties (salonenque; aglandau; grossane; tanche) using cold-extraction methods.
The seasonal mountain transhumance of sheep flocks between the Provence lowlands (winter pasture) and the high Alps (summer estive — mountain pasture above 1500 meters), and the management of the Sisteron lamb breed on aromatic mountain…
The industrial-scale salt crystallization management at the Salins du Midi of Aigues-Mortes — the largest salt production site in France — combined with the artisan fleur de sel harvesting tradition on the adjacent Petite Camargue marshes.
The hand-harvesting of cork bark from cork oak (Quercus suber) in the Landes de Gascogne — the northernmost cork oak zone in France.
The transhumant beekeeping tradition of Haute-Provence — moving hives between winter lowland positions and summer highland lavender fields — producing the distinctive lavender honey of Provence.
Sasak Songket is the supplementary weft gold and silk thread weaving tradition of the Sasak people of Lombok — producing lustrous cloth with raised gold or silver thread patterns on a silk or cotton ground.
The Innviertel linen weaving tradition of the Upper Austrian Inn valley quarter — the production of the fine homespun linen cloth (Hausleinwand) from locally grown flax that sustained the domestic textile economy of the Innviertel farming…
The Maká people, settled at the Colonia Fray Bartolomé de las Casas — a 335-hectare community occupying an island in the Río Paraguay, facing the settlement of Zevallos-Cué near Asunción's Botanical Garden and Zoo — are documented as…
The sombrero pirí — Paraguay's typical straw hat, centered in Limpio and also produced in Emboscada and Luque — is, despite its common name, woven not from pirí (a Cyperus rush or sedge) but from karanda'y, a palm species (Copernicia…
The Carinthian folk weaving tradition of Kärnten — the southern Austrian province whose textile heritage bridges the Austrian Alpine tradition to the north and the Slovenian weaving traditions to the south, producing a distinctive folk…
Yomitanzan hanaori (読谷山花織) is the float-weave of Yomitan Village on central Okinawa Island: on a plain-weave ground, typically dark indigo or white, colored threads — white, yellow, red, green — are floated to form small geometric…