Mechanical Looms Demonstration

Name: Démonstration sur les métiers à tisser mécaniques
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée du textile

The museum has several looms in operation, a demonstrator gives new life to these machines.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passat

Musées de Cholet

Since 2003, the museum also houses the last red handkerchief workshop in Cholet. It perpetuates a tradition and a know-how: emblem of a city and a territory. Its centennial history is evoked in the workshop open to all.
Demonstrations take place regularly throughout the day (no specific schedules).

À propos du lieu

Musée du textile

Rue du Docteur Roux, 49300 Cholet

Maine-et-Loire
Pays de la Loire

The museum is housed in a laundry built in 1881, which operated until 1940\. Its garden invites you to discover the unusual use of tinctorial and fiber plants in the crafts and textile industry. In a maze of colours, these plant species reveal the secrets of a thousand-year-old know-how. It provides a rich and lively panorama of the choletaise textile industry. We find there the steps of the manufacture of the fiber to the yarn and the yarn to the fabric. Last workshop of manufacture handkerchief red of Cholet.

Etiquetas

Musée, salle d'exposition, Musée de France

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