Les Tableaux tissés de la Fabrique lyonnaise (Société des Dessinateurs Lyonnais, 1922)

1922

Book

Société des Dessinateurs Lyonnais, Lyon
Grand Salon de la Bibliothèque
Paper wrappers tied with a black cord
44 pages with 14 plates

The Library Exhibition Catalog

Description

This catalog of a 1922 exhibition by the Société des Dessinateurs Lyonnais lists 85 tableaux tissés, woven pictures from Lyon’s silk industry. In his essay the Lyon silk designer Émile Leroudier argues that their worth lies in the mise en carte, the designer’s squared-paper drawing from which the Jacquard loom’s punched cards were cut. Plates 1 and 2 are Michel-Marie Carquillat’s woven portrait of Jacquard (1839) and his weaving of the duc d’Aumale’s visit to his workshop (1844), both in this collection.