Hi, here are some pieces of our textile heritage :

In the silk workshop we visited :

 a loom, still in use

 

Bobbin threads and a woven  table (Jacquard picture)

 

In our school :

• This is a very old Jacquard loom :

• This is a punched card for a loom :

In our city :

Claude Martin, former apprentice to a silk weaver, who then became a soldier, a businessman and indigo farmer in India, and eventually the founder of our school in Lyon :

 From silk to indigo

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