The New French Treaty - No. II., Lyons and French Silks, 1862. 'View of the Croix [this] was for a very long period the head-quarters of the population of canuts, or workmen employed as weavers in the silk trade. It is situated on a steep hillside leading down into the Thorigny's drawing faithfully depicts the present appearance of the new and old parts of this ancient portion of Lyons. A Canut at mostly well disposed, the canuts have always taken a prominent part in the revolutionary movements that have so frequently broken out at Lyons, thrown into them, no
The New French Treaty - No. II., Lyons and French Silks, 1862. 'View of the Croix [this] was for a very long period the head-quarters of the population of canuts, or workmen employed as weavers in the silk trade. It is situated on a steep hillside leading down into the Thorigny's drawing faithfully depicts the present appearance of the new and old parts of this ancient portion of Lyons. A Canut at mostly well disposed, the canuts have always taken a prominent part in the revolutionary movements that have so frequently broken out at Lyons, thrown into them, no doubt, by the distress from which they so often suffer. A Canuse at her females are also employed at the looms and in the preparation of the silks, and are often as skilful in throwing the shuttle some twelve thousand times a day as their male competitors. When a canut is a married man his spouse usually operates at one of her "master's" looms. Interior of a [showing] the weaver at work on a current article, which, issues from his loom ready for the market, with the exception of the last finish, which is given to it in a room set apart for that purpose'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.
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