Paul Creton
Paul Creton , is French Tisserand of the 17th century, originating in Vimoutiers in the Pays of Trough in Basse-Normandie, which would have been at the origin of the invention of the Cretonne.
About the origin of the name of cretonne, one finds this note historical in a work published by the Company of the old French texts:
The industry of the tapestry was introduced in England only in 1619 ( Annals off Trade , II, 296). - On the great fame of the fabrics of Rheims and Troyes, voy. Bourquelot, Studies on the fairs of Champagne , in the Memories presented to the Acadam. insc. , 2nd series, V, 1st part, 281. - The addition “and of Creton”, which is only in the old edition, is probably because of printer Rouen are born. Creton is a village of the district of Évreux. It is from there undoubtedly that the name comes from cretonne on the subject of which one reads in the Dictionnaire of Trévoux (followed by various lexicographers, in particular by Mr. Littré): “Kind of white fabric which is manufactured in Normandy, on the side of Lisieux. These fabrics were thus called name of that which in has frabric the first . ”
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