Jun 11 11:37
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French term

remetteur/remetteuse

French to English Social Sciences History travail de la soie
context: a research article on the social and economic history of the Canuts (silk-weavers) in Lyon in the 19th century (I'm proofreading the English written by a French person)
sentence: "the gendered operations of the Lyon dispersed manufacture (Fabrique) are well recorded here in the masculine form for the loom assemblers and in the feminine form for the unwinder (dévideuse) and the XXX (remetteuse). ... For example, for the manufacture of a cashmere waistcoat, the remetteuse, “XXX”, doing the essential task of laying the warp on the weaving loom, was paid 3.60 francs plus a meal."

I have found these definitions for the trades (http://dianescianima.free.fr/jeucadremetiers.htm):
Dévideur: Ouvrier qui met le fil ou la soie en peloton ou en écheveau, voir Fileuse de lin.
Donneur: Ouvrier qui prépare et règle (monter) les métiers à tisser, aussi appelé Remetteur.

Might anyone know of a good glossary or English-language article on these trades where I could find what "remetteur" is called in English?

Thanks for your help!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 reacher (for drawing)

Discussion

pennylyd Jun 12:
or 'reacher-in' as in this glossary of terms in the cotton weaving industry.
https://happyvalley.org.uk/?page_id=4040
Daryo Jun 12:
https://cieta.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Vocabulaire-fran...


Remettage ou rentrage

Le remettage est l'opération qui consiste à passer chaque fil de la chaîne, l'un après l'autre dans les mailles (lisses) des cadres.
etc
https://www.philippedemoule.fr/cvmt/fr/1e60d5ee_a5f1_42cc_91...

https://www.soierie-vivante.asso.fr/en_GB/glossaire
https://www.soierie-vivante.asso.fr/glossaire

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossaire_du_tissage
Remettage
installation des fils de chaîne entre les mailles des arcades (fils permettant de relier la mécanique à la chaîne).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossaire_du_tissage#P:~:text=...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_textile_manufactur...

Una Dimitrijevic (asker) Jun 11:
further defition from the same site for "remetteuse" : Dans la fabrication des étoffes de soie, personne chargée de passer les fils d'une chaine dans les lisses.

Proposed translations

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reacher (for drawing)

https://rmhh.co.uk/occup/q-r.html#R
reacher for drawing
"Specific occupation in the cotton/silk weaving mills. Each thread has to be Drawn through the Eye on a Heald, ready for the loom and then separately picked out from the Beam of warp threads by the Reacher."

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Note added at 2 hrs (2024-06-11 14:33:40 GMT)
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https://www.wordnik.com/words/reacher
reacher
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One who reaches warp-threads to another (the drawer-in), to be drawn through the heddles and reed, in making ready for the loom.
Peer comment(s):

agree Andrew Bramhall : Seems correct to me, despite never having heard or coming across the term before;l
1 hr
agree Daryo : Sounds right.
17 hrs
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