Passadoc Gazette - No. 131

Hebdo 131

You said « knitting » ?

How long have we been knitting? Since... for a long time!... as attest fragments of socks found in Egypt (th century) or Peru (- 300).

The ancestor of knitting is probably the naalbinding*It seems to be a simple Viking technique, consisting of using small lengths of wire, connected together to create a kind of fabric.

The sprang is also mentioned; Is it easier? Not sure! [...] works with either a frame or a pair of parallel beams. The yarn is prepared by winding in loops on either side of the frame and crossing them in the middle of the frame.

Pristi! We are far from the pair of needles used today, even knitting machines whose first was invented in 1589 by William Lee, English.

Time passes...

1789. Here are the knitters of the Revolution, say « The Jacobines ». Women of the people, they attend the trials of the nobles, follow the sessions of the Convention, call the deputies. Some prefer to settle at the foot of the guillotine, and while knitting, they watch the heads fall...

1914. Whether bourgeois or modest in origin, young girls learn to knit. Also when the Great War arrives, in all families, women make scarves, gloves, hats, socks that will be sent to the fighters: For the trembling torsos under the shower, for the faces pruned by the bourrasque, for the blue noses, for the feet petrified by the frozen mud, for the knees pruned by the long reptations on the dear soil of France, so harsh when it is necessary to hold it, for the heroic hands that were crumbling on the cold and heavy rifle**...

1939. Second World War... hands are taken over, needles that are not just feminine, because men also knit.

Today, in Scandinavian countries, as many knitters as knitters. In Peru, on Taquile Island, men knit, women weave. In our home, the Irish shepherds were spinning and knitting wool while keeping their flocks. It remains to be seen whether this is still the case...

So, « I don't know. » Handmade knitting? Only nenni! It is present in many parades « high seam » And it costs a lot!

– When does our knit happen?

Patience... here it is... look at it: it's a sweater « mathematician » Hey!

Jeanne Monin

* bound with a needle ; used in Scandinavia (793-1066 C.E.) to create resistant clothing.
** Camille Lestienne, journalist, who quotes « The Chorus of the Truncated » – Journal of the 17th Territorial – May 10, 1915.

Research on many sites.

In 1984, sweaters were pulled out to make transhumance. And to believe my posture, it had to pee!

Good day to sheep lovers, Mercantour and hand knit sweaters (see the girl of the designer Nadine Berenguier sweater)

FranSee Abbe

A sweater « mathematician », with signs « plus », signs « less », signs « multiplied » Hey!

The Echoes of the Week
Cork oaks
Expo-Photo
The Rock of Roquebrune
Passadoc

Cork oaks

21 July ... Happy party to our Belgian friends!

To celebrate, we're going to talk about Liège!... finally cork! (what an incredible word game!)

Get up, everybody! It's 6 o'clock, time to go to the forest with Jeannot Avois.

François Abbe

This scene really happened. It was in 1984 in the Moorish Forest (Var). In 2023, it appears that even cork suffers from drought. Did anyone find out?
François Abbe

Giselle Penat-Lorde
Indeed, it is not a galejade. Actually, it is not cork that suffers from drought but cork oaks.

I no longer know when or where, but I have read several articles on the subject, including reports from the NFB and other forest specialists, and I have also followed some TV documentaries probably on ARTE.

In general, many forest species suffer dramatically from drought and exceptional heat waves that have been raging for several years.

The vegetation suffers from a lack of water of varying intensity depending on the region, with often irreversible consequences. Whole sections of spruce forests, beech trees, adult fir trees die regularly in recent years (Bourgogne, Vosges, Jura, Ardennes, Alsace/Lorraine, Auvergne/Rhône-Alpes) and in other regions such as Normandy and Picardie...

Specialists are seriously looking at the subject to « rethinking the forest » by replanting species that are more adapted to climate change with greater resistance to diseases and pests.

Unfortunately, our cork oaks are more robust and more resistant. There is increasing evidence that trees are weakened, weakened and become sick: leaves become rarer, dead branches appear. The rains we had in May-June, often abundant on the Moors, were very appreciative and appreciated.

In the Pyrénées Orientales department, it was indeed recommended not to lift the cork this year, in order not to further weaken the cork oaks that are not already in great shape, even though it is an important economic sector in this region. Lifting cork would also be very complicated in this particularly important water stress situation with drought. On the other hand, account must be taken of the even higher risk of fire.

For information: The Pyrénées-Orientales has 7,000 ha of suberaies (cork oak forests) and is the only production basin that has given up lifting cork this year. However, the lifting began in southern Spain, Var and Corsica. (June 2023).

Equally worrisome, the combined effects of lack of water and high heats are fertile soil for the proliferation of cambiophageous insects within stands. By attacking the trunks, these bio-abusors cause decay, and then the death of the trees already weakened by the climate. Our suberaies don't escape either.

Expo-Photo

New flyers to announce our visits to the photo exhibition of Abbé André
and the village of Roquebrune have arrived! Do you like them?

For all lovers of photography and heritage, this is the time: direction → Roquebrune-sur-Argens (Var).

We're counting on you!

Two exhibitions:
1. The Roquebrune-sur-Argens Photographic Festival It started on 22 July and continues until 30 July.
2. The exhibition « Works and days » dAbbe Photo Association until November.

François Abbe

The Rock of Roquebrune

DIn 1990...

A thick smoke rises above the Rocher de Roquebrune-sur-Argens; It burns on the Pétignon side.

The rock rounded below is the clead, its precious « Y » indicating noon time is hidden by a tree.

At the time, the Rock did not yet have its three crosses.

Passadoc.

François Abbe

Olivier Ciamous
We were in the middle of harvest on Saturday afternoon when the fire reached the top of Saint-Martin and my grandfather asked us to tidy everything up to join the Vernède...
33 years... but it was yesterday in my memory!

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Writing Passadoc – Participants included:
André Abbe
François Abbe
Olivier Ciamous
Jeanne Monin
Giselle Penat-Lorde
Layout
Jeanne Monin