03 — Liseré · Silk & linen
Fourvière
Commission a cloth like this- Commissioned for
- Banquettes for a hotel bar on the Saône quays
- Structure
- Liseré, warp-faced figure on a satin ground
- Yarn
- Silk warp, linen weft
- Sett
- 42 ends / cm · 38 picks / cm
- Repeat
- 64 × 21 cm · 800 picks
- Loom
- Electronic head, 2,688 hooks
- Woven
- 38 m in 7 weeks
The hill of Fourvière, its basilica and metal tower, Saint-Jean and the canut houses — Lyon as a woven band.
For a bar on the Saône quays, a band cloth of the view from its windows: the basilica on its hill, the metal tower, Saint-Jean at the water, and on the far bank the tall canut houses of the Croix-Rousse, built high to take Jacquard looms.
The band is woven mirrored, so the banquettes read the same from either side of the room. A linen weft gives it the dry hand that bar seating needs.
01 — Mise en carte
The point paper.
One square per crossing of warp and weft, a heavier rule every eight. Hover a row to read it as a card.
Pick 0000 · hooks up 000
02 — Lisage
Cut into cards.
The same rows, punched. A hole lifts a hook; a hook lifts an end. The chain is laced with linen cord and read one card per pick.
03 — Tissage
At the thread.
Hold the thread counter over the cloth to see the floats: long on the figure, tied down on the ground.
04 — Endroit, envers
Two faces.
Face and back of the same cloth. What is warp-faced on one side is weft-faced on the other.