Fashion: This is how tweed is made: A visit to the exclusive weaving workshops of the luxury brand Chanel

When Anne Lise sits at her loom, everything goes haywire.

Fashion: This is how tweed is made: A visit to the exclusive weaving workshops of the luxury brand Chanel

When Anne Lise sits at her loom, everything goes haywire. However, the textile designer is by no means chaotic. With concentration, she guides a glittering thread through several dozen threads stretched vertically over a frame. Anne Lise follows a pattern that lies next to her, written down on a piece of paper. It shows number codes that, like a weaving plan, specify which thread she has to lift so that she can thread the yarn through. She repeats this process hundreds of times until hours later a special pattern emerges.

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