ForageGoes to France 21-25 OCT 2019

‘Forage by Lisa Mattock’ and ‘Stitching Up ’ with Pauline Geneteau bring you the Paris Forager’s Tour 21-25 October 2019

This small group tour explores the specialist ateliers and stores not on the “normal” tourist track. If you’re a passionate devotee of all things French; food, shopping, art and of course vintage fabrics and notions, then this is the tour for you!

Join us for five fabulous days in Paris, Then in the afternoons we will enjoy a personally accompanied by Lisa Mattock private tour of a museum or gallery with of ‘Forage by Lisa Mattock’ and Pauline exhibits pertaining to our love of textiles. Geneteau of ‘Stitching Up Paris’. Numbers are limited to just 10 to make sure We’ll find ribbons, fabrics, haberdashery, and Pauline and Lisa can spend time with all of notions. Mais oui, we will of course also have you and we are able to thoroughly enjoy all a few opportunities for a good “forage” at the beautiful little stores and stalls we’ll visit several delightful brocantes and specialist together. markets. We will also visit specific galleries Formidable!! We can’t wait to share with you and museums dedicated to textiles and the some of our Parisian textile/vintage bucket textile arts. list finds…all I can say is make sure you There will be an adventure each morning bring a big bag, comfortable shoes and an as Pauline takes us to those special places appetite for good food, good fun and great only a local can know, followed by lunch at a Foraging. delightful French bistro or glamorous café. ITINERARY Day 1: Monday 21 October Flea market foraging Meet at 9:45am in front of the City Hall; Hotel de Ville station métro ligne 1 and 11. We will take the RATP bus No.85 for a day at Les Puces de Saint-Ouen, exploring the huge variety of stalls selling all manner of vintage linens and textiles… many well over 100 years old.

Day 2: Tuesday 22 October Sewing and textiles Meet at 9:45am at 1 Avenue Daumesnil 75012 Paris, (station Bastille métro ligne 1, 5 and 8, or station Gare de Lyon métro ligne 1, 14 and RER ligne A or D. Today Pauline will show us some wonderful specialty stores brimming with trims/ ribbons/notions/threads galore. Clignancourt flea market, officially called “Les Puces de Saint-Ouen, but known to everyone as “Les Puces” (The Fleas) covers seven hectares, with 3,000 traders and up In 1974, the Yves Saint Laurent haute to 180,000 visitors each weekend. couture house, which had been located at 30 bis rue Spontini since it was established Les Puces is generally thought to be the in 1961, moved to a hôtel particulier at 5 biggest flea market in the world. You avenue Marceau dating back to the Second are sure to find many delights you want Empire. Yves Saint Laurent would go on to to take home with you. My advice for spend nearly thirty years there pursuing shopping here is, if you see something you his career as a couturier. love buy it then and there, as we likely will not get back to that stall today. In 2002, Saint Laurent announced his intention to cease his career as a We will stop for a lunch break in the we’ll have lunch in the Les Halles, area, couturier and close the haute couture middle of the day before visiting the last known as “Le ventre de Paris; the stomach house. Two years later following extensive few stalls this afternoon. Then I think we’ll of Paris. This neighborhood still has a renovation of the building, the Fondation call it a day and repair to a nearby bar wonderful food market feel to it. Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent opened for a well-deserved glass of bubbles (own its doors. This chic exhibition space is now In keeping with our daily theme of cost) to celebrate our victories! dedicated to, and focuses solely on Saint “sewing”, this afternoon we’ll visit the Laurent’s extensive body of work. ‘Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent’ to delve into the world of Yves Saint Laurent and discover a thousand and one anecdotes about his haute couture house. Day 3 Wednesday 23 October Lets go vintage! This morning we will meet at 9:45am at Corvisart métro station on ligne 6. The ligne 6 is one of the metro lines that are not fully underground, and it is nice to ride in them for example across the Seine.

Pauline will take us to some beautiful little stores, full to the brim of goodies...aged, kitsch, collectible, odd, and interesting. Lunch at Ladurée (to continue in our vintage theme). Make sure to taste the famous macaron for dessert.. Then we’ll visit Musée Cluny - Musée national du Moyen Âge (National Museum of the ) for a special treat, an exhibition celebrating the 5 senses represented in the famous of The Lady and the . This Medieval museum was built over Roman baths that featured the famous tapestries. It is housed in one of the oldest buildings in Paris, a former townhouse whose construction started in 1334. Although the collection includes more than 23,000 artworks and objects, the museum only exhibits 2,300 of them. Some of the most important items include stained glass, tombstones, weapons, shields and reliquary. However, the most famous items in the museum and the ones we are here to see is the tapestries of the Lady and the Unicorn, dating back to the fifteenth century. Day 5 Friday 25 October Knitting & Yarn This morning we’ll again meet at 9:45am. Today’s meeting point is Métro Station Blanche on ligne 2. To get to our first stop we will walk the street where the famous movie Amelie was made, before with Pauline’s help we’ll browse (spend!!) in shops that sell incredibly beautiful yarns, most of which are made and sold exclusively in France. Day 4 Thursday 24 October Stitching and Emboidery An extra treat after we finish shopping is that we’re going Meet at Anvers métro station ligne 2 at 9:45am. to have a knitting session This morning Pauline will be taking us to visit stores that with Pauline, an incredibly specialise in threads, threads, threads!! How heavenly!! accomplished knitting We will also have a look at the famous Butte Montmartre, tutor who has written many and the Sacré Coeur cathedral. patterns. She is kindly going to share a special pattern she After lunch at a typical Brasserie Parisienne, we’ll visit La has created for us, inspired by Manufacture des Gobelins, a former furniture storage unit the stained glass windows of the venue for this afternoon’s excursion; La for the monarchy created in 1663 by Louis XIV and Colbert Sainte Chapelle. and now making atelier, We’ll get to see the incredibly talented tapestry makers at work, thanks to “Le Today we’ll enjoy lunch (and maybe a knitting workshop) at the knitting café, Patrimoine”, a part of the Culture Ministry, responsible for L’OisiveThé which takes its name from a play on the French words oisiveté the preservation of the city’s beautiful historic buildings (idleness) and thé (tea). and for keeping traditional craftsmanship alive. This tiny café doubles as a yarn shop, and every week knitters from all over Having occupied its current site since the 17th century, Paris flock to here for a knitting group and tea evening that has gained a Les Gobelins comprises several hundred pieces, collected loyal following. over the centuries, bought by Le Mobilier National, or ordered recently. The tapestry collection of the Mobilier National, consisting of around 1,500 pieces, is one of the largest in the world. After lunch, we’ll head off to La Sainte Chapelle. This royal chapel, designed in the Gothic style, was intended to house precious Christian relics, including Christ’s crown of thorns, acquired by Saint Louis. Having these sacred relics in his possession made the already powerful monarch the head of western Christianity. Stunning stained glass is a key feature of the chapel. Arranged across 15 windows, each 15 metres high, the stained glass panes depict 1,113 scenes from the Old and New Testaments recounting the history of the world until the arrival of the relics in Paris. The chapel sits within the medieval Palais de la Cité – the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century – on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, site of the jail cell of Marie Antoinette. Voila! This concludes the ‘Paris Forager’s Tour’. You’re welcome to join us for an ‘end of tour’ drink, or you may choose to continue exploring Paris on your own. ABOUT YOUR TOUR GUIDES

PAULINE GENETEAU: was born LISA MATTOCK: in Brittany and grew up under first explored her love for fabrics the trees and seeing the sea and textiles during high school every day. I have always liked where her unique and original to draw and play with colors creations made from strips and that is why, early on, I of fabric knitted and woven studied art and came to Paris together and embellished with to graduate in Textile design. embroidered flowers made from During my studies, I was lucky beads and sequins led her to be to do a semester abroad in invited to exhibit in “ArtExpress”, London. the prestigious annual exhibition featuring a selection of I am a passionate knitter, crocheter, weaver, everything to outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking do with yarns and making with my hands. component of final year exams in Visual Arts in NSW. From childhood, I have always travelled, first with my parents A long and varied career in the creative industries followed. then on my own or with friends. I have been all over Europe This has seen Lisa gather expertise as a textile artist, florist, and as far as the Great Wall in China and Peru in South food stylist, and visual merchandiser, culminating in her America. On these trips, I like to discover new cultures and own upmarket florist and homewares store, which she ran in see beautiful landscapes. I also like to meet new people and Sydney’s eastern suburbs for many years. to learn about their country. These experiences, combined with her long-standing passions ‘Stitching Up Paris Tours’ allows me to follow my own for vintage fabrics, recycling, and made Forage a passion for knitting and stitching, and also to share the natural evolution. Here Lisa gets to follow and share her twin beautiful city I now call home with visitors from all over the passions of discovering and collecting reclaimed fabrics and world. It is my absolute pleasure and privilege on this tour embellishments, and creating intricate layered textile artworks. to share with you some of the best spots in Paris to find Lisa is a passionate Francophile and after many requests from beautiful materials for your own creations. students and her Instagram followers she has decided to share @stitchingupparis with you her passion for vintage French textiles and textile @paulilen.textile related collectibles on this intimate insider’s tour. https://www.stitchingupparis.com/ @foragebylisamattock https://www.foragebylisamattock.com.au/ Tour cost $1500 (AUD)

INCLUDES ACCOMMODATION GOOD TO KNOW • Guided excursion each morning with Accommodation is per your own We will meet at 9:45am each morning at the Pauline Geneteau arrangement and cost. pre-designated meeting spot, and finish • ‘Prix fixe’ lunch each day at a local café/ up around 5:00pm each day. You are free bistro (excludes alcohol drinks) WHAT TO BRING to continue exploring at the end of the • Comfortable shoes suitable for walking • Afternoon excursion accompanied by day, and/or to get together with your fellow on cobblestones Lisa Mattock to visit a textile-related travellers for drinks or dinner if you desire. museum or gallery exhibit • Smart casual clothes are suitable for Even though we will stop for coffee and each day’s excursion, but you may want • 5 day ‘Paris Visit’ pass (unlimited travel lunch breaks each day, this tour involves to dress in layers to allow for changeable on the bus, metro, tramway and RER travel on the metro and a fair amount of weather, and also pack a light rain networks in Paris inner suburbs) walking, therefore a moderate level of jacket for those unexpected Autumn fitness (plus comfortable shoes) is required. DOES NOT INCLUDE showers. • International flights and transfers to and • A small cross-body bag that leaves your PREPARING FOR YOUR TRIP from your home city hands free for foraging is also a good You might like to read /watch: • Accommodation idea • Amelie, by Jean-Pierre Jeunet • Any meals, snacks and drinks not • Credit cards are accepted in most • Paris by Cedric Klapish specifically mentioned above (ie locations we will visit, but it is also a • Loving Vincent by Dorota Kobiela, and breakfasts and dinners are per your own good idea to have some euros on hand Hugh Welchman arrangement and cost) for small items such as coffee and • Paris je t’aime by several directors (a • Travel Insurance. You must arrange this drinks, and/or when cash will get you a love letter to the city) prior to departure better price while shopping. • The Ladies’ Delight (Au bonheur des Dames)by Emile Zola • Tips for guides, drivers, porters etc • Paris est une Fête by Ernest Hemingway, Any shipping and/or transport of your • Les misérables, or Notre Dame de Paris purchases is your own responsibility by Victor Hugo however we can recommend several • Perfume by Patrick Süskind reputable shipping services and of course • Saga Malaussene (6 books) by Daniel the local postal service. Information Pennac , the story of a crazy but very provided on request. funny family that lives in Belleville. Terms and Conditions Liability & Insurance In addition to and without limitation, Neither Forage by Lisa Mattock nor Pauline Geneteau By embarking upon his/her travel, the Neither Forage by Lisa Mattock nor of ‘Stitching Up Paris’ is responsible for any traveller voluntarily assumes all risks Pauline Geneteau of ‘Stitching Up Paris’ are injury, loss, death, inconvenience, delay or involved in such travel—whether expected or responsible for changes of flight times, fare damage to personal property in connection unexpected, the traveller is hereby warned changes, damage, loss of baggage, dishonour with the provision of any goods or services of these above mentioned risks as well of airline, hotel or other reservations, whether resulting from but not limited to acts as possible travel industry bankruptcies/ delays, losses, injuries, inconveniences, of God or force majeure, illness, disease, acts medical/climatic disruptions, and the cessation of operations, airline or tour of war, civil unrest, insurrection or revolt, possibility that traveller/travellers may bankruptcies, accidents, or for the acts of animals, strikes or other labour activities, be unable to travel as per the scheduled defaults of any person or entity engaged in criminal or terrorist activities of any kind, itinerary, due to any personal emergency conveying participants or in carrying out overbooking or downgrading of services, which might arise. other arrangements of the tour. 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Group Size: maximum 10 pax. Non-refundable deposit of AUD$500 is payable no later than 30 April 2019 to secure your spot. First in, best dressed! Balance payable by 01 September 2019. Please email payment receipt/s to: [email protected] Bank name: NAB Address: 55 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010 Account Name: Miss LK Watson & Ms LA Mattock Account Number: 66 349 9519 BSB: 082088

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