Aubusson tapestry is the result of the encounter between an artistic project conceived by a creator and a set of skills mastered by various excellent trades: spinner, dyer, cardboard maker and weaver. Creating a tapestry is not limited to enlarging a model and carefully transcribing it into weaving. This process is based on the ability of an artistic project to fully develop in a single material – thread – and on the mastery of excellent trades that, together, interpret this project, offering it its perfect outcome through its textile transcription.

Understanding the unbreakable link between the creator and the craftsman, as well as the importance of their collaboration and the interaction between various skills, is the central challenge of this training. This exploration of artistic trades offers learners a wide range of possibilities.

At the end of the training, learners will have acquired the following skills:

Be introduced to the theoretical knowledge of the process of making a tapestry
Discover the different trades and their know-how: spinner, dyer, cardboard maker and weaver.
Learn the various plastic possibilities of tapestry: weaving grains, technical writing, materials, textures and colors.
Learn from a concrete case, the development of a rosary (thread color chart) allowing to translate by the mixture of colors and materials, an extract of an artist's project in tapestry.
Discover weaving on a frame. Weave the different mixtures of colors and materials made previously and observe the effects obtained.

These two days of training invite you to discover, through various contemporary creation projects developed by the Cité internationale de la tapisserie (completed or currently being woven in Aubusson), the manufacturing process and the multiple challenges of transposing an artist's model into a tapestry: dimensions, weaving caliber, color palette, materials, textures, specific techniques, etc.
During this immersion in the world of Aubusson tapestry, you will be introduced to:

The technique of making the rosary - a color chart of mixed threads - a crucial step in the interpretation of an artistic project in tapestry,
Weaving on a frame in order to observe the effect of the mixtures of colors and materials once woven.

Day 1

Morning: Theoretical training
Presentation of the Aubusson tapestry "environment": history, different trades...
How do we go from an image to a tapestry? Production process - The challenges.

Afternoon: Practical training
Making rosaries from a concrete project.
End of the day
Intervention by the artist Marie Sirgue

Day 2

Morning: Continuation of theoretical training

Afternoon: Practical training
On weaving frames (1 frame per participant), weaving of the colors made the day before and introduction to weaving of basic technical writings. Understand the effects of material, textures and writings.
Participants will have the opportunity to leave with their weaving.

Delphine MANGERET

After obtaining a Certificate of Arts and Techniques of Low Warp Tapestry and a National Higher Diploma of Plastic Expression, Delphine Mangeret created her colorist-cardboard workshop for Aubusson tapestry in 2007.

As part of projects initiated by the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie such as "Aubusson weaves Tolkien", "The world of Hayao Miyazaki in Aubusson Tapestry" and "Homage to George Sand", she participates in collaboration with artists, spinners, dyers and weavers in the interpretation of artistic projects in tapestry.
Her work in preparing a weaving includes developing the aesthetic line, choosing the different types of threads, constructing the range of colours, tracing the cardboard and establishing a harmonious, creative and dynamic collaboration between the different trades involved in making these tapestries.

Since 2014, as part of the training centre set up by the Cité de la Tapisserie and managed by the Greta du Limousin, she has been passing on her skills in colour and cardboard production to new generations of weavers, contributing to the preservation and development of this traditional know-how.

France-Odile Perrin-Crinière

After three years of training in tapestry at the École Nationale d'Art Décoratif d'Aubusson and two years as a weaver in the Atelier Camille Legoueix in Aubusson, France-Odile created her workshop in 1984, where she weaves tests from personal creations, projects in collaboration with artists, as well as creations for clothing and fashion accessories. These multiple experiences allowed her to find her style. This work resulted in the creation of several tapestries in which she highlights the material and color.
In 2010, she joined forces with Martine Stamm. Together, they combined their experiences and know-how by creating the SARL Atelier A². They demonstrated this know-how by creating numerous tapestries by contemporary artists, for the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie as part of calls for creation, as well as for the CNAP.
These artistic challenges allow her to explore all the possibilities of her profession and to be in perpetual research, whether on textile writing or materials.
In December 2012, the workshop obtained the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label. Aware of what she received from her master weavers, she feels the need to pass it on. In 2004, she became a training center and, in 2012, a trainer at the Cité de la Tapisserie for professional training in warp tapestry, managed by GRETA.

Marie Sirgue will speak at the end of the day on May 6. This talented artist, known for her diversions of objects and her poetic trompe-l'oeil, has collaborated with the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie Aubusson. This project, "Bleue", is representative of her artistic approach. She will share her experience with the learners during an informal discussion.

• Classroom, multipurpose room
• Provision of cones of threads (various colors and materials) and a printed extract in color of the model "Hommage à George Sand" by the artist Françoise Pétrovitch, for the creation of rosaries: interpret the effects of the wash by mixing the threads.
• Weave the mixtures of threads made on a weaving frame.
• Individual and collaborative work
• Workshop work on campus
• Active participation and experimentation of participants are favored

• Collective and personalized monitoring of work, regular updates
• Self-assessment of technical skills
• Collective restitution
• Sign-in sheet per half-day
• Certificate of completion issued by Campus MaNa