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History

The work of the seaweed harvesters, the men and women who wrote a history here by working a natural resource.

For centuries, seaweed harvesting supported the families of the Léon coast. This tour tells the story of that trade: what was gathered, how, with which tools and which clothes — and how a resource picked up on the foreshore came to feed an entire industry.

The stops

  1. The first uses of seaweed in history
  2. Harvesting drift seaweed
  3. Harvesting shore seaweed
  4. Harvesting deep-water seaweed
  5. Clothing Clothes made for working the foreshore: kabigs and kalabousenn
  6. The farmer seaweed harvesters
  7. Transporting the seaweed: a labour to the rhythm of the tides
  8. Drômes and daviers, local adaptations for transporting seaweed
  9. Drying and burning the seaweed
  10. The seaweed kilns
  11. The Seaweed Harvesters' Festival
  12. The seaweed sloop
  13. Seaweed in the chemical industry: glass and iodine
  14. The departure for the islands
  15. Portrait Maryvonne Galliou, known as Mone, seaweed harvester of the islands
  16. Portrait Joseph Bodénès, known as Job, seaweed harvester of the islands