Alliance Française du Manitoba

Embroidery Workshops with by Pascal Jaouen, embroider/stylist from France

September 24^th and 25^th, 2011
Saint-Boniface Museum
(494 Taché Avenue – Winnipeg)

In the context of the Farandole project, the Alliance Française du Manitoba is offering embroidery workshops lead by Pascal Jaouen, embroider/stylist from France.

The workshops will introduce the attendees to the traditional Glazig embroidery from Brittany (France), and to the Luneville stitch beadwork technique.

Pascal Jaouen established the Ecole de broderie d’art de Quimper in 1995, and has directed it since.
He finds his inspiration in the embroidery of traditional clothes, which he associates with and transforms into contemporary patterns.

Glazig Embroidery
Men from Quimper and the region (in Brittany) used to wear blue broadcloth This colour gave the area the moniker “Glazik country” (little blue in Breton). This outfit, also called “Glazik”, was embroider with silk buttonhole thread, in geometric patterns at first, before becoming more floral.
This technique is now Pascal Jaouen’s favourite. He transforms it using shimmering silk thread into a contemporary creation and calls it “Broderie Glazig”.

Lunéville stitch
The Lunéville stitch is an embroidery technique which appeared in Lunéville (Lorraine, France) around 1810, in order to imitate certain laces, such as those from Venise, Bruges, Valenciennes … Lunéville specialized in a technique of embroidery on cotton tulle.
Thus did Lunéville produce dresses, albs, surplices, altar cloths, christening gowns, bibs and bonnets, shawls, etc… The second world war marked the beginning of a lull, but in recent years the stitch has slowly reclaimed its place the cultural landscape.