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Discover the digitisations of the resources centre films, recordings and weavers interviews (in French), archives, photos. Immerse yourself in fiber with our gigapixel tapestry viewer. 

The documents of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Corpus" were digitised by means of the call for digitisation of the French Ministry of Culture. 

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  • Dévoilement de la 7e tapisserie de la Tenture Tolkien, "Mithrim", tissée par les Ateliers Pinton, 2019.

  • Dévoilement de la 6e tapisserie de la Tenture Tolkien, "The Trolls", tissée par l'Atelier Guillot, 2019.

  • Dévoilement de la 5e tapisserie de la Tenture Tolkien, "Rivendell", en présence de l'Ambassadeur du Royaume-Uni en France, Lord Llewellyn, 17 mai 2019

  • Christopher Tolkien discovering the first Tolkien tapestries

  • Tombée de métier des 2e et 3e tapisseries du la Tenture Tolkien, 5 octobre 2018

  • The first Tolkien tapestry started in December 2017, has been revealed by Baillie Tolkien on April 6th 2018 and is now on display at the Cité internationale de la tapisserie, Aubusson.

  • On April 6th 2018 the Cité internationale de la tapisserie unveiled its first Tolkien tapestry out of 14 created within the frame of the project "Aubusson weaves Tolkien".

  • To "translate" the Tolkien original artworks into tapestries, the weaving commitee has to decide what will be the technical bias for each tapestry.

  • The origins of the agreement with the Tolkien Estate for creating an exclusive series of thirteen tapestries and one carpet to be woven at Aubusson over the course of four years.