Valorisation Patrimoine Sud Tarn

Let's recall that there also existed, for the slats (‘cuirots’), the corporation of slats brokers.

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The wool merchants, who acquire the wool in a roughly raw state known as "washed wools," supply the demand...

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Their raison d'être is to fulfill complex orders, thus allowing each merchant to specialize!

Finally, let's not forget the “Condition Publique”, which assigns a "normal commercial weight" to a merchandise, which is essentially hygrometric. An initiative by Charles Sabatié in 1889, who created this institution to prevent any disputes!

* freshly dried skins taking on the appearance of parchment

 

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Sources:

Illustrations taken from the work "Le délainage et sa capitale Mazamet" by Gaston POULAIN - 1951

And from the book "Mille et une duites" by Alain Le Guehennec – 1984