An integral part of the
French Basque region is Basque linen or Linge
Basque with its traditional stripes which used to be in a sober colour
palette of red, green and cream. Traditionally there used to be seven stripes
on the linen: one for each province of the Basque region- three in France and
four in Spain.
They say that the origins
of the linen was in the Middle ages when
weavers went door to door and made small linen squares to protect the cattle
from insects called La mante a boeufs!
I visited
the Tissage Lartigue factory and showroom in the village of Ascain, near St
Jean de Luz, who have been making this linen from 1910.
They use cotton threads
of 65 colours and create cushion covers, bags, bread holders, runners in a
striking palette of candy colours in stripes.
I loved the fully mechanized looms that we saw and also workers tailoring the linen into bags, spectacle cases, runners.
Just some of the things
that I adored:
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