The wicker branch from beginning to end...
"I tied my boot with a wicker branch", as Alain Souchon sings! That's good, but Christophe and Virginie, they do many other things...
They are basket makers.
But, you will say to me, what is unusual? Well, in fact, several things...
First of all, they take care of the wicker from the beginning to the end. This means that they grow a dozen varieties of willow themselves. This allows them to get different willows depending on what they want to do.
And what they want to do, and how, second particularity, they explain it to you.
A very educational visit!
Throughout the visit that you will make in their workshop, you will understand the differences between the basket making techniques, illustrated by old pieces that mark out the history of the trade.
You will see them working, while showing you the details of their gestures.
You will also leave with a few more vocabulary words, a splint, the top, the fence, a crocâne... A crocâne? Yes, of course, everyone knows that... it is a very regular braiding, with an oblique effect in which a strand is placed behind each post, as many strands as there are posts. All the strands, worked horizontally, are of the same length and end at the same time with the top.
I am a scientist, am I not? Well, I confess... I looked up the "lexicon of technical basketry terms"!
Atelier Foutu Brin
1, rue Edmond Mercier
(access by the street Frédéric Demay)
36400 Montgivray
Tel : 02 54 07 43 44
https://www.berryprovince.com/degustation/foutu-brin-montgivray/
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