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Traditional Textile Arts and Crafts / Arts traditionnels du textile

This is for you, textile arts and crafts lover.

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1. Rouleau principal (head roller)
2. Lame (harness)
3. Lisse (heddle)
4. Chaîne (warp)
5. Baguette d'encroix (leash rod)

6. Porte-fils (back beam)
7. Ensouple de chaîne (warp roller)
8. Battant (beater)
9. Manivelle (handle)
10. Cliquet (ratchet)

11. Roue dentée (ratchet wheel)
12. Ensouple de tissu (cloth roller)
13. Contremarche (lam)
14. Pédale de frein (release treadle)
15. Tentoir (take-up handle)

16. Oeillet (screw eye)
17. Corde d'accrochage
(treadle cord)
18. Marche (treadle)
19. Traverse (crossbeam)
20. Entretoise (crosspiece)

21. Montant (post)
22. Poitrinière (breast beam)
23. Bâti (frame)
24. Trame (weft)
25. Semelle du battant
(beater sley)

26. Ros (reed)
27. Chapeau du battant
(beater handtree)
28. Harnais (harnesses)
29. Support du rouleau (upright)

Links:

Textile arts and crafts (Google)

La culture et l'exploitation du lin

Les métiers du textile en Normandie - interpretation of traditional crafts, Middle Ages, as performed in Saint-Lô, Normandy)

All Fiber arts

The history of spinning (Hickory Ridge Homestead, NC)

Books on the subject (in French)

Textile crafts tools

Warping frame, shuttles, etc., 18th century illustrations (Planches tirées de l'Encyclopédie de Diderot et D'Alembert)

Navettes/Shuttles (pictures only)

More generally, on traditional crafts

Métiers d'autrefois illustrés sur le Net (in French)

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Do you know of other interesting links?
Please write to us:

Cape Breton Museums Network (CBMN) / Réseau des musées du Cap-Breton (RMCB)

For more on weaving and looms

Weaving (types of looms, phases of weaving)

Les opérations du tissage; les matières textiles

Glossaire du tissage (in French)

Build your own loom

Traditional looms from Quebec: Leclerc Looms/ Métiers Leclerc

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Quilts and quilting

Économusée de la courtepointe, Wellington, PEI

Old Nova Scotian quilts (Civililzation.ca)

Musée de la civilisation, Québec

Textile museums worldwide:

Ashford Textile Museum, UK (a collection of spinning wheels from around the world)

Conservatoire des vieux métiers du textile (CVMT)

Musée du tapis et des arts textiles de Clermont-Ferrand, France

Musée du Textile de Labastide Rouairoux, Toulouse, France

The Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto

The Textile Museum, Washington, DC

CBMN © July 2003; revised May 2004

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