Joseph Perret did not weave fabrics. He wove for Georges Mattelon the tutus of the skaters at the creation of Holiday on ice, in 1943 ...
Joseph Perret was a canute. He was also my maternal grandfather. Aimé Perret, known as Joseph (for he did not like his first name), was the last boy in a family of fifteen children. He was born on the family farm in a village in the Loire (42), neighbor of Noirétable and the country of Aimé Backgammon. Unable to take over the farm reserved for the eldest son, he had to go into exile in Lyon, in search of work, like many others at that time. Unfortunately, I do not know the details of his life, which no one thought fit to tell me, but I know that he was canut to the end. First apprentice, assuredly. Then before the war, he had a workshop of mechanical trades. After the war, he finds himself in his craft workshop (!) On the landing of his wretched apartment, at 2 Place Marcel Bertone (eg Place Belfort). That's where, little boy, I often watched him weaving or making his cans in his hand for the next day.
He never knew that I would do the same job as he did ...
Opposite, in the evening, Joseph made his cans for the next day.