We spent a rainy week in Lyon: Ken to the archives and me to the museums and streets. Here are photos from the first two days.
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- One of the pieces in Autoportraits.
The Museum of Textile is exhaustive with an amazing selection of fabrics and costumes from throughout the history of textile making in Lyon.
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- Bob’s your uncle.
And the next day I went to the Museum of Printmaking, a fabulous museum.
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- Musee de l’Imprimerie de la Communication Graphique.
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- Very early printing press.
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- Early paper cutter.
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- Printed clothing patterns.
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- Four litho stones showing colour separations.
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- Presses used in the workshop.
Painting, laundry, shopping, evening walks took up the rest of the time until Friday afternoon.
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- Cut bridge here.
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- Saone River is very high.
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- Diplomatico Cafe, a reminder of the coffeeshop in Toronto of the same name.
On Friday, a visit to the Gadagne Museums, dinner and a walk by the Saone.
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- The Gadagne Museums
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- History of Lyon
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- Guignol, a Lyonnaise puppet character
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- Guignol
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- Transformer puppets on rods.
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- The puppeteer’s head completes the puppet.
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- Punch and Judy
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- Swans on a swollen River Saone
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- Gluten-Free restaurant with weird decor
We discovered this wall mural in Lyon in 1999. So happy to see it’s still there.
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- Our favourite wall mural.
