In Creusois' memory, we had never known such a busy month of June. At least since the Cité internationale de la tapisserie exists in Aubusson. Two important falls of trade and the revelation of an ambitious project for the next three years have definitively highlighted the extraordinary renaissance of the Aubusson tapestry. The English writer Tolkien, the Japanese filmmaker Miyazaki and the writer George Sand form this unusual triptych by which this art is anchored today in the twenty-first century. Minds may evolve - we now see in the City parents pulled by their children who want to "see the tapestries of Miyazaki" - but the general public still tends too often to associate weaving with the Middle Ages and its famous Lady with the Unicorn, exhibited at the Cluny Museum in Paris.
Throughout the summer, it is at the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, on the banks of the Seine in Paris, that you have to go and see the small revolution: Ashitaka relieves his demonic wound, tapestry...
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