From shearing sheep to weaving and knitting yarns, as well as sorting and washing fleeces and spinning, the Tricolor project encourages the rebirth of the French wool sector. Première Vision, in partnership with Made in Town, offers a range of eco-responsible textiles to brands and designers who wish to explore the many possibilities of this material produced locally in France and resulting from farm to wardrobe production.
For more than ten years now, many sheep breeders’ groups have joined forces to prevent the wool from the fleeces of their herds from being lost. Together, they are looking for solutions to take advantage of this essential annual production. Forerunners are the merino breeders of Arles, probably the most qualitative of French sheep’s wools to date, but also those of Raïoles sheep in the Cévennes, Texel herds in the Creuse, or the shepherds of Lacaune sheep south of the central massif.
However, these isolated initiatives are struggling to achieve an industrial dimension that would facilitate the creative use of these French wools in the worlds of fashion and design.
It is to fight against the progressive disappearance of this French textile sector that Première Vision, thanks to its unifying role within the industry, in partnership with Made in Town, initiates within the framework of the Made in France Première Vision exhibition a series of collaborations between the French wool production sectors and the actors of creation through an original project entitled Tricolor which promotes all the actors of the value chain.
Tricolor thus presents a range of eco-responsible textiles that consists of wool sheets woven by the Passe-Trame workshop (Mazamet, Tarn) from the fibres of 12 breeds of sheep and sheep spread throughout France – Aure et Campan, Barégeoise, Bizet, Corse, Île-de-France, Lacaune, Mérinos d’Arles, Noire du Velay, Préalpes du Sud, Rouge du Roussillon, Solognote, Tarasconnaise – and knitting yarns made in Creuse by Fonty and made in Tarn by Filatures du Parc. The colours of this range of textiles, from the darkest to the lightest, are designed without dyeing in order to make the most of the natural shades of the fleeces.
Based on the yarns and weavings proposed, the project offers the opportunity to about fifty brands and designers to interpret the multiple possibilities of the material in the fields of fashion and decoration with the manufacturers of the Made In France Première Vision show.
In order to tell the story of these adventures, Tricolor is also accompanied by a web series that reveals the backstage of the French wool industries and an exhibition tour from September 2018 to December 2019 offering an interface with many audiences in France and abroad.
List of the 68 brands participating in TRICOLOR at the Made in France Première Vision show on April 3 and 4, 2019
17H10 – a.guery – Aalto – Aganovich – Anatomica – Anne Corbière – Archipel – Ardelaine – Arpin 1817 – Atelier Chatersèn – Atelier POK – Atelier Quercus – Atelier Tuffery – Aurore Thibout – Avgousta Theodoulou – B.Guillet eco–design – Balzac Paris – Bernard Zins – Bonne Gueule – Brun de Vian–Tiran – Cabane – Caruus – Cécile Feilchenfeldt knitwear studio Paris – Clotilde Toussaint – Crambes – Cuirassé – D.Sevarolli x Maison Doris – Damien Béal – De Bonne Facture – Des vêtements d’usages – Ephyre Paris – Galucebo – Garnier–Thiébaut – Gwenaël Prost – Heschung – Jack Gomme – Juliet Imbert Studio – Kidur – La maille au personnel – La Manufacture 49 – La manufacture de layette et tricots – Laetitia Modeste couture – Laines paysannes – Le Mont St–Michel – Le Passe-Trame – Le Sac du Berger – Le Slip Français – Les petites ambitieuses – Lily Latifi – Lïns Paris – Made in Valentine – Maison Dupuy de Lôme – Maison Fabre – Marithé + François Girbaud – Maroquinerie Philippe Serres – Milan noir – Missègle – Monocle – Regain – Royal Mer – Savoar Fer – Sibada Laines – Stéphane Plassier – Stéphanie Coudert – Studio Pli – Thomasine Gloves – Ubac – Whole – XVI
