Musée des fibres et textiles et vie de la fermière

Discover the museum of natural fibres and textiles that are part of our daily life.
If sheep's wool, accompanied by mohair, angora, alpaca and others, is still local, we know less about the history of hemp, which was widely cultivated in our region in the 20th century.
Numerous materials, not forgetting the famous hemp comb, are testimonies of this culture which seems to be regaining a new interest
New extension: life in our countryside until the 1950s.
Linen, cotton, jute, sisal, ramie are presented. And silk? Until the war of 1914, silkworm breeding, in our middle Garonne, allowed a certain income to our peasants. These famous cocoons were very popular at the cocoon fair in Montauban.