TISSAGE Instruction sur l’art du tissage et fabrication des étoffes de soie et autres.

A very fine manuscript album, produced for a silk manufacturer in Lyon.

It consists of two parts:

– The first, after a general introduction to silk and its preparation, describes warping, the different wefts for brocades, damasks, velvets and drogues, as well as stuffing, with very finely drawn ink diagrams for each stage.

– The second part presents the workshop’s various creations, with more than 200 samples of glued fabrics and waxed and glued colour designs, as well as the corresponding wefts.

The book is in generally good condition, although some of the samples have become detached and some have disappeared.