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Sandrine Bourg, modiste - Paris 4e - Confection de chapeaux pour Maison Givenchy. Commande pour la Sainte-Catherine et les Catherinettes. Les chapeaux portent les couleurs jaune et vert. La couleur verte symbolise l'espoir (de se marier) tandis que la couleur jaune symbolise la sagesse (acquise avec les années).

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Sandrine Bourg, modiste - Paris 4e - Confection de chapeaux pour Maison Givenchy. Commande pour la Sainte-Catherine et les Catherinettes. Les chapeaux portent les couleurs jaune et vert. La couleur verte symbolise l'espoir (de se marier) tandis que la couleur jaune symbolise la sagesse (acquise avec les années).

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Sandrine Bourg, modiste - Paris 4e - Confection de chapeaux pour Maison Givenchy. Commande pour la Sainte-Catherine et les Catherinettes. Les chapeaux portent les couleurs jaune et vert. La couleur verte symbolise l'espoir (de se marier) tandis que la couleur jaune symbolise la sagesse (acquise avec les années).

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Maison du Pli - Karen Grigorian, maitre plisseur Moule en carton "Plissé Soleil"

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Maison du Pli - Karen Grigorian, maitre plisseur - Installation d'une dentelle de la Maison Mery à Caudry tissée sur métiers Leavers, sur un métier à plisser "Accordéon" pour le plissage manuel - Plissé réalisé pour Maison Givenchy

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Maison du Pli - Karen Grigorian, maitre plisseur

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Maison du Pli - Moule en carton "plissé accordéon" Karen Grigorian, maitre plisseur avec Rudolph Grigorian. Father & son at work

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Maison du Pli - Moule en carton "plissé fantaisi"

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota. After a third fire completely destroyed the original mill, the Klemers built a new two-story building on the Cannon River in October 1892. The new mill had 8 looms, 2 Woolen Cards and 4 spinning mules. In 1905, the Mill had 13 looms and 3 Woolen Cards

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. The Dyeing Room. For stripes, plaids and other patterns, raw wool is stock dyed before carding and spinning the wool into yarn. The undyed fiber also called "greys and browns", is washed before dyeing, in a large dye kettle which works like a pressure cooker. Each dye kettle can contain 500 pounds of wool.

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. The Dyeing Room : dyeing raw wool black For stripes, plaids and other patterns, raw wool (undyed fiber) is washed and stock-dyed before carding and spinning the wool into yarn. Raw wool is precisely weighed and placed in a massive dye kettle which works like a large pressure cooker, and contains 500 pounds of wool. When the batch is lifted from the dye kettle, it's dripping with water and weighing 1,500 pounds

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. Carding: From Scribbler to Carder The Davis & Furber Woolen Card consists of two sections, the Scribbler (left) and the Carder (right). In the first section, raw wool is transformed into batting by a series of rolls. This batting is delivered to the Carder by an intermediate mechanism, the Scotch Feed. In the Carder, the batting is turned into roving, the first stage of the yarn. Here, the overhead apron of the Scotch Feed conveys the batting/web of wool to the feed apron of the Carder where two rollers apply pressure and motion.

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. For stripes, plaids and other patterns, raw wool (undyed fiber) is washed and stock-dyed before carding and spinning the wool into yarn. Raw wool is precisely weighed and placed in a massive dye kettle which works like a large pressure cooker, containing 500 pounds of wool. When the batch is lifted from the dye kettle, it's dripping with water and weighing 1,500 pounds

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. Burling (quality check) on Trapper Wool Throws - Gray/Natural Stripe - 100% Merino Wool Burling: All woven material is inspected on a giant light box for flaws. Skilled inspectors repair minor inconsistencies with tweezers. The fabric is also measured and weighed

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. Sweeping raw wool "browns and greys" in the dyeing room

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. Coning : the yarn is quality tested using an electronic eye to detect weak spots and is transferred from spinning bobbins to cones to prepare for weaving. The ring bobbins are removed from the spinning frame and transferred to the cone winding machine. The bobbins of yarn are placed on vertical creels at the bottom of the machine; the yarn is threaded upward through various guides and wound in cone form. Here, winding of heather grey yarn for military blankets. Coning is the last step of yarn production.

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. Spinning and Coning: ring bobbins waiting to be transferred to the winding machine. The yarn will be wound onto cones and quality tested for weaving. Coning is the last step of yarn production

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. Faribault Woolen Mill is a zero-waste manufacture. Recycling: Scraps of wool from every stage of production are reground and converted into recycled yarn. At Faribault nothing is wasted.

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. Napping - Woven fabric for the Foot Soldier Military Blankets/Throws - 100% Wool The napper, a machine with rollers covered with wire bristles that comb and raise the surface fibers of the fabric. This process creates a smooth and fuzzy finish, adds softness to the cloth and improves thermal insulation properties.

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co, since 1865. Established along the Cannon River in Minnesota, USA. The Fringer. Creating fringes on the Bison Check Wool Throws - Natural/Black - Merino Wool The Fringer: For throws and scarves with fringe, the looms leave sections of warp threads unwoven. The fringer twists those sections and inserts a thread to hold them in place.

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AndiArt - La Paz, Bolivia Established in 2000 by French designer Veronique Valdes, AndiArt specializes in home decoration. Valdes designs textiles such as carpets, curtains and bed throws that are then handwoven by artisans in Bolivia. The weaving and natural dyeing studio of AndiArt is located on the Altiplano in El Alto, the large city looking down over La Paz, Bolivia. Nieves, a Quechua woman oversees the whole production and has been working with AndiArt for the past 17 years. A long piece of Bayeta, a traditional textile handwoven with alpaca and llama wools, has been naturally dyed with cochineal and is drying in the sun. This traditional textile is becoming rare as the weaving techniques are slowly disappearing

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AndiArt - La Paz, Bolivia Established in 2000 by French designer Veronique Valdes, AndiArt specializes in home decoration. Valdes designs textiles such as carpets, curtains and bed throws that are then handwoven by artisans in Bolivia. The weaving and natural dyeing studio of AndiArt is located on the Altiplano in El Alto, the large city looking down over La Paz, Bolivia. Nieves, a Quechua woman oversees the whole production and has been working with AndiArt for the past 17 years. Nieves is plying wool yarn to make 2-ply wool balls.

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AndiArt - La Paz, Bolivia Established in 2000 by French designer Veronique Valdes, AndiArt specializes in home decoration. Valdes designs textiles such as carpets, curtains and bed throws that are then handwoven in Bolivia by local indian artisans. Valdes also collects vintage frazadas (Bolivian throws and carpets) and vintage traditional garments she either restores or transforms into cushions, tote bags and small purses. Vintage frazada about to be laid on the ground and cut into a new set of cushions.

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AndiArt - La Paz, Bolivia Established in 2000 by French designer Veronique Valdes, AndiArt specializes in home decoration. Valdes designs textiles such as carpets, curtains and bed throws that are then handwoven in Bolivia. Valdes also collects vintage frazadas (Bolivian throws and carpets) and vintage traditional garments she either restores or transforms into cushions, tote bags and small purses. She is measuring a frazada that will be transformed into a new set of cushions.

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AndiArt - La Paz, Bolivia Established in 2000 by French designer Veronique Valdes, AndiArt specializes in home decoration. Valdes designs textiles such as carpets, curtains and bed throws that are then handwoven by artisans in Bolivia. Valdes also collects vintage frazadas (Bolivian throws and carpets) and vintage traditional garments she either restores or transforms into cushions, tote bags and small purses. Véronique Valdes is cutting a vintage frazada to make a new set of cushions.

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Chahuaytire village, located above the town of Pisac. The Chahuaytire weaving community is supported by the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales Del Cusco, Peru (CTTC) founded in 1996 by indigenous weavers of the Cusco region and international supporters, to save, promote and spread the Peruvian traditional textile knowledge. The weavers meet once a week, every Wednesday, in the weaving center set up in the open air. The Chahuaytire community uses backstrap looms and four-stakes looms, weaving double-faced fabric (the pattern is the same on both sides but the colors opposite and fabrics with supplementary warp technique. Handspun & handwoven texiles, all naturally dyed.

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Threads of Peru, handwoven textiles - Upis Village, with the sacred Mountain Ausangate in the background - Quechua Weavers

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Threads of Peru, handwoven textiles - Upis Village, with the sacred Mountain Ausangate in the background - Quechua Weavers

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German, Quechua-Aymara farmer in Toledo, near Oruro, supplies AndiArt with fine alpaca, sheep and llama wool.

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Threads of Peru, handwoven textiles - Upis Village, with the sacred Mountain Ausangate in the background - Quechua Weavers

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Threads of Peru, handwoven textiles - Upis Village, with the sacred Mountain Ausangate in the background - Quechua Weavers

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Threads of Peru, handwoven textiles - Upis Village, with the sacred Mountain Ausangate in the background - Quechua Weavers

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Chahuaytire village, located above the town of Pisac. The Chahuaytire weaving community is supported by the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales Del Cusco, Peru (CTTC) founded in 1996 by indigenous weavers of the Cusco region and international supporters, to save, promote and spread the Peruvian traditional textile knowledge. The weavers meet once a week, every Wednesday, in the weaving center set up in the open air. The Chahuaytire community uses backstrap looms and four-stakes looms, weaving double-faced fabric (the pattern is the same on both sides but the colors opposite and fabrics with supplementary warp technique. Handspun & handwoven texiles, all naturally dyed. A weaver wearing his chullo (knitted hat)

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Chahuaytire village, located above the town of Pisac. The Chahuaytire weaving community is supported by the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales Del Cusco, Peru (CTTC) founded in 1996 by indigenous weavers of the Cusco region and international supporters, to save, promote and spread the Peruvian traditional textile knowledge. The weavers meet once a week, every Wednesday, in the weaving center set up in the open air. The Chahuaytire community uses backstrap looms and four-stakes looms, weaving double-faced fabric (the pattern is the same on both sides but the colors opposite and fabrics with supplementary warp technique. Handspun & handwoven texiles, all naturally dyed.

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Chahuaytire village, located above the town of Pisac. The Chahuaytire weaving community is supported by the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales Del Cusco, Peru (CTTC) founded in 1996 by indigenous weavers of the Cusco region and international supporters, to save, promote and spread the Peruvian traditional textile knowledge. The weavers meet once a week, every Wednesday, in the weaving center set up in the open air. The Chahuaytire community uses backstrap looms and four-stakes looms, weaving double-faced fabric (the pattern is the same on both sides but the colors opposite and fabrics with supplementary warp technique. Handspun & handwoven texiles, all naturally dyed.

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Chahuaytire village, located above the town of Pisac. The Chahuaytire weaving community is supported by the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales Del Cusco, Peru (CTTC) founded in 1996 by indigenous weavers of the Cusco region and international supporters, to save, promote and spread the Peruvian traditional textile knowledge. The weavers meet once a week, every Wednesday, in the weaving center set up in the open air. The Chahuaytire community uses backstrap looms and four-stakes looms, weaving double-faced fabric (the pattern is the same on both sides but the colors opposite and fabrics with supplementary warp technique. Handspun & handwoven texiles, all naturally dyed. Two men, weaving side by side.

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia Dennis Williams - Grass dancer & beadwork artist

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia Dennis Williams - Grass dancer & beadwork artist

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia Dana Goodwin, fiber artist, Ojibwe teacher and Jingle Dress dancer

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia - Dana Goodwin, Ojibwe artist and powwow dancer,

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia Quinn - Dennis Williams/Dana Goddwin Family

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia Deandra - 13 years old and Jingle Dress Dancer - Her mother, fiber artist Dana Goodwin, made her dress. Her father, beadwork artist Dennis Williams, made her beadwork regalia.

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia The Dennis Williams/Dana Goodwin family. Quinn, Dana's eldest daughter

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia Genevieve Williams - 13 years old and Fancy Shawl dancer - Beadwork by her father, Dennis Williams

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia Quinne Goodwin-Chaffe, Fancy Shawl Dancer - Enrolled member of the White Earth Nation - Beadwork by her father Dennis Williams - Dress and shawl by her mother Dana Goodwin

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia Genevieve- 13 years old and Fancy Shawl dancer - Beadwork by her father Dennis Williams - Shawl and dress by her mother, Dana Goodwin

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White Earth Reservation - Little Elbow Lake State Park - Pow wow regalia Quinne Goodwin-Chaffe, Fancy Shawl Dancer - Enrolled member of the White Earth Nation - Beadwork by her father Dennis Williams - Dress and shawl by her mother Dana Goodwin