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One owes the creation project of the Jacquard Museum to Mr. Hendryck PERSYN, head of the Flemish Tapestries group, to which, the Craye corporation managed by Messrs. Simon and Stéphane CRAYE, is affiliated.
To realize his dream of creation, Mr. Hendryck Persyn and his Flemish Tapestries group, provided several millions of francs, without any outside help nor public subsidy and purchased old Jacquard looms all over the world to start a collection which is prestigious today.
Located behind the CRAYE factory, the Jacquard Museum extends over 1,400 squared meters, accessible from rue de la Providence.
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The date from 1750 to the present days and are all in working order.
The oldest one is from 1750 is a machine with arms, totally made in wood. At the Jacquard Museum, on may also discover a warper used at the beginning of the 20th century for the preparation of the warps, a Nuyts loom, the first motorized machine equipped with 6 mechanics for a very fine setting with many threads. One may also discover the ribbon machine, a superb artwork dating from 1860, coming from Saint Etienne but identical to the ones used around 1884 around the towns of Wervicq and Comines. A machine used at the time to perforate the Jacquard boards (from the drawing to the cloth) and which was used for almost one century. Another machine, from Roubaix this one, built in 1900 in its workshop of 48-52 rue Daubenton, by the famous mechanic builder Léon OLIVIER of Roubaix and which allowed the creation of herring-bone patterns, stripes and other checks.
And also…
Another Jacquard loom (given by the builder's grandson) coming from Harelbeke (near Courtrai, Belgium), shuttle-free looms which succeeded shuttle looms, two machines to make Jacquard board dating from 1830 and many other machines...
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