Valorisation Patrimoine Sud Tarn
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Fellmongery: An Industry to Discover or Rediscover in Mazamet...
Welcome to our covered hall in Mazamet to discover or rediscover the extraordinary story of fellmongery, which began in the mid-19th century and continued until the early 2000s.
Fellmongery originated in Mazamet around 1850 when the industrialist Pierre-Elie Houlès imported sheep skins from Argentina to apply a technique aimed at separating the wool from the skin.
For more than a century, from 1850 to 2000, Mazamet forged international connections and developed a high-quality industry at the forefront of progress, contributing to the local industrial dynamism at least until the early 1980s.
Fellmongery still continues today in the vitality of the town and the employment basin of Southern Tarn: many of today's companies indeed find their roots in the wool industry. Their leaders often come from old fellmongersfamilies.
Move forward, look, wander, breathe, observe, stroll, and enjoy a journey we have designed to be playful, educational, rich in experience, full of history, and, we hope, filled with strong emotions!
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Enjoy your visit!
