Braid then!

Name: Braid then!
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Maison des tresses et lacets

Presentation of a collection of braids made on the wood crafts of the House of braids and laces, in partnership with the Choletaise Manufacturing Company (SCF)....

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Maison des Tresses et Lacets

Presentation of a collection of braids made on the wood looms of the Maison des tresses et lacets, in partnership with the Société Choletaise de Fabrication (SCF). These braids were diverted by Eva Prémillieu and the Fu collective, artists/ designers, and gave birth to singular works.

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Maison des tresses et lacets

119, route des moulins Le Moulin Pinte, 42740 La Terrasse-sur-Dorlay, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Loire
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

On the territory of the park of Pilat, the house of Plaits and laces, installed(settled) at the edge of Dorlay, in an old(former) textile factory, «The mill pint» welcomes the visitors.« On the road of the water »- hydraulic installations, an external route(course) of discovery allows to deepen(fathom) the functioning of the hydraulic installations leaving in the source(spring) of the watercourse in the activation of wooden jobs(businesses): levyings, reach, gates(cracks) in guillotine, pond of retention, wheels with troughs (6 m of diameter - 15 tons), who(which), change by the river, hurried up in the past up to 600 jobs(businesses). In the workshop(studio) built in 1911, 50 jobs(businesses) to be braided in movement redraw the old(former) activity of plaits and laces, jewel(flagship) of the activity of Dorlay. These machines testify a remarkable mechanical smartness. Exposed(Explained) jobs(businesses): in circuit closed to fabricate tubes: laces or cords with circuit opened to fabricate flat plaits or braids. Wooden: walnut, beech, boxwood, charm, they have evocative names: job(business) "princess", "braid", "snail", "spider"..