Thursday, July 6, 2017
At the Maison Des Canuts, I found it really interesting that the way the old draw loom worked before the Jacquard Loom was that the strings had to be physically pulled. It was really cool to see it work in person and how much memorization has to go into the pattern. The punch cards would lift up certain threads and the weaver wraps the specific color for the lines and then switches it again to a different pattern of rows on the punch card.
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I found that fascinating as well. It was amazing to see our guide operate the loom. I thought the price of fabric was absurdly expensive, but it was quite a long process to produce it.
ReplyDeleteI found that fascinating as well. It was amazing to see our guide operate the loom. I thought the price of fabric was absurdly expensive, but it was quite a long process to produce it.
ReplyDeleteHeidi's comment : being a master weaver sounds like a lot of work. I was kinda curious about how many of the master weavers were able to countinue to work on the job in old age due to eye sight problems or if they knew their patterns well enough that it didn't effect them.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was really cool that she showed us how it operates. I couldn't believe the prices of the fabrics, but thinking about the amount of craftsmanship that goes into them and having to take about 3 months to set up the machine makes sense why it's so much. It was also interesting that they had to purchase 6 meters of fabric which could be up to €54,000.
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