Visit of a weaving workshop and exhibition: «Territoire Textiles Pyrénées»

Name: Visita de un taller de tejido y exposición: «Territorio Textiles Pirineos»
Start: 2023-09-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Ancien atelier de tissage Larrousse

This is an exhibition on the history of weaving and the visit of a mechanical weaving workshop installed in a traditional Béarn farm and in operation from 1914 to 1984\. He presented an association…

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

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This is an exhibition on the history of weaving and the visit of a mechanical weaving workshop installed in a traditional Béarn farm and active from 1914 to 1984. It presents an assortment of 17 weaving machines dating from the first half of the twentieth century, listed in the inventory of historical monuments.

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit, Sur inscription

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Ancien atelier de tissage Larrousse

19 rue Louis Barthou, 64800 Coarraze

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Nestled in the heart of the village of Coarraze, the last «factory farm» of the department, «Le Tissage Larrousse» contains a workshop of 9 looms, a canvas and a warp with all its coils of colored cotton, linen and wool yarn.
The Tissage Larrousse de Coarraze was founded in 1911 by a former cotton mill foreman, Valérien Larrousse, who was first described as a peddler and then a weaver in 1914\. When the founder died in 1939, the workshop was taken over by his son, Gaston, who used it until 1984\. Despite the manufacture of tablecloths and tea towels, Tissage Larrousse will remain somewhat on the sidelines of the Basque linen vogue through the manufacture, especially of cotton workwear, a large stock of which is visible in another building. This «factory farm» configuration, the last in the whole department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, remains the only witness of the textile era of "Petit Manchester".