Guided tour of a workshop-museum of weavers and charentaise

Name: Visite commentée d'un atelier-musée des tisserands et de la charentaise
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Château de Varaignes

Guided tour of the workshop-museum, located in a castle built between the 12th and 16th centuries.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

©OT Varaignes

The workshop-museum tells the story of the textile activity of the Périgord-Limousin, cradle of the famous Charente slipper.
First, discover the Château de Varaignes, with its towers and courtyard inspired by the Italian Renaissance.
Inside, stroll through the different rooms that bear the name of former local factories where are exposed looms, a spinning mill and its laboratory or machines to cut and sew the charentaises.
In the house of the weaver reconstituted, find the daily life of the peasant-weaver in the nineteenth century.

À propos du lieu

Château de Varaignes

Le bourg, 24360 Varaignes

Dordogne
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The castle of Varaignes, built between the twelfth and the sixteenth century, is a concentrate of styles: from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. In 1928, his story was turned upside down. Indeed, his door, dating from the Renaissance, was bought by John Hays Hammond Jr., a rich American and inventor of the remote control. He wanted to build a castle for his wife, north of Boston, with elements and objects purchased in France and Italy.
To arrive safely, the door was dismantled in 47 pieces and reassembled on a facade of the inner courtyard surrounding the pool of the Hammond property. The «travel door» was forgotten for several decades, until it reappeared thanks to an American search engine.
Located 20 km away, La Rochefoucauld Castle is listed as a Historical Monument.