Few corrections here. The L'Assomption sash is not prortrayed here. The red design you're pointing at is from the 1950s Québec winter festival, and its made on a loom. They're really pretty but they're not historical Métis sash. The L'Assomption sash as the defined arrows/lightnings of many colors, it is made by hand, but was indeed mass produced in the 1700s for voyageurs of the the Hudson bay company that used them for their work and as tokens of exchange with indigenous people. Working class women and children were exploited for their work doing the sash, so a priest reommemded that they cease being produced. Then the HBC had to move production to England, in Coventry to make imitations of the Assomptiom sash on power looms. Those sash were quite popular from the 1850s and up. Louis Riel owned one, and i believe i also have an authentic Coventry.
Few corrections here. The L'Assomption sash is not prortrayed here. The red design you're pointing at is from the 1950s Québec winter festival, and its made on a loom. They're really pretty but they're not historical Métis sash. The L'Assomption sash as the defined arrows/lightnings of many colors, it is made by hand, but was indeed mass produced in the 1700s for voyageurs of the the Hudson bay company that used them for their work and as tokens of exchange with indigenous people. Working class women and children were exploited for their work doing the sash, so a priest reommemded that they cease being produced. Then the HBC had to move production to England, in Coventry to make imitations of the Assomptiom sash on power looms. Those sash were quite popular from the 1850s and up. Louis Riel owned one, and i believe i also have an authentic Coventry.
Thanks for this
And where can you buy one of those machines
How to weave how to weave!
You know Indigenous people were weaving these long before contact.