les toiles du soleil

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Saint Laurent de Cerdans altitude : 1000 meters

Once upon a time there was a small village of Haut Vallespir in the Pyrenees, called St Laurent de Cerdans a catalan weaving factory...

Les Toiles du Soleil

« Les Toiles du Soleil » is a fabric that was created by the villagers of St Laurent de Cerdans : a small village in Pyrénées, on the Spanish border a long ago.

Resulting from a tradition wich began several centuries ago, the catalan way of weaving expanded at the end of the XIXth century. At the same

time, St Laurent de Cerdans became famous and prosperous thanks to the manufacture of rope-soled sandals.

Almost 20 years ago, in 1993,

Françoise and Henri Quinta have

acquired SANS et GARCERIE

founded in 1897.

The expertise is there from

generation to generation. In 1939

the factory branched out its business with

weaving fabrics deckchair, thus opening a new market share.

In 1955 it was the return of linen, tablecloths and napkins with patterns and colors typical Catalan. In 1994 Henri and

Françoise Quinta decide to buy the factory and they saved the last textile factory in the village and also revived the great

tradition of Catalan weaving.

All our products are genuine. Not only because they result from original methods and a traditional know-how passed down from generation to generation but also because Les Toiles du Soleil only use the natural

and fine materials of cotton and linen.

Conclusion

• Founded 150 years ago in St Laurent de Cerdans, a small town in the Catalan part of France that quickly became a benchmark in making “espadrilles” traditionnal shoes for summer.

• The “toiles du soleil” store opened in New York in 2008.

The compagny also has a shop in Tokio

and exporte its products to Europe, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, Chili and Luxembourg.

• Most of the fabrics of Les Toiles du Soleil are manufactured on traditional looms.

Les toiles du soleil in New York

Les toiles du soleil boutique in Perpignan

Les Toiles du Soleil products