France · Silk preparation; Throwing craft; Lyon heritage
Moulinage et Dévidage de Soie
The throwing (twisting) of raw silk filaments into usable yarn on the moulin (silk throwing mill) — the process that transforms reeled raw silk filament (grège) into the various yarn types used by Lyon weavers: organzine (Z-twisted warp yarn); trame (S-twisted weft yarn); crêpe (high-twist yarn for organza and crêpe fabric — CRAFT-0988 cross-reference). The moulinier reads the correct twist level by touching the finished yarn: too little twist and the yarn is flat and weak; too much and it kinks spontaneously.
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Carving and construction in tuffeau — a soft, cream-colored calcareous tufa stone quarried from the Loire Valley cliffs.
Silk and gold thread embroidered processional banners for Breton pardon (pilgrimage) ceremonies, integrating painted enamel saint medallions.
The building of the plate — the traditional flat-bottomed wooden punt of the Marais Poitevin (Green Venice), used to navigate the narrow waterways of the Poitevin marshland.
Figural carving in Caen limestone — an oolitic limestone so prized that William I shipped it to England for the Tower of London and Canterbury Cathedral after 1066.
The making of rag paper (papier chiffon) in the Charente mills — a tradition that made Angoulême the center of French paper production for three centuries and supplied the Paris publishing and printing industry.
Flat-woven wool tapestry on a vertical high-warp loom (haute-lisse), worked from a cartoon hung behind the warp.
The Yakan people of Basilan Island — an indigenous group distinct from both the Muslim Moro communities and the indigenous highland peoples — produce the most complex backstrap loom textile in the Philippines: the pis siyabit (ceremonial…
Bandhani (from Sanskrit: bandha = tie) is the resist-dyeing tradition of Gujarat and Rajasthan in which tiny points of fabric are picked up and tightly bound with thread before dyeing, creating a pattern of undyed dots on the dyed ground.
Nanjing Yunjin (南京云锦 — 'cloud brocade') is the imperial silk weaving tradition of Nanjing, Jiangsu — inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List in 2009 — and considered the pinnacle of Chinese silk weaving.
Song brocade (宋锦) is the third of China's Three Great Brocades — alongside Shu brocade (CRAFT-0363) and Nanjing Yunjin (CRAFT-0386) — produced in Suzhou, Jiangsu, and inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List in 2009.
The hand-felting of the qeleshe (also called plis) — the white, brimless, dome-shaped felt cap that is Albanian traditional dress's most iconic piece of headwear, worn across Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia's Albanian-speaking…
Mata ni Pachedi (Gujarati: 'cloth behind the mother goddess') is a hand-drawn and block-printed narrative textile tradition of the Vaghari community of Ahmedabad, Gujarat.