International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

Austrian Lace Schools


AUSTRIAN CROCHET WORK

DESIGNED BY FRÄULEIN HOFMANNINGER
FOR EXECUTION AT VARIOUS SCHOOLS

board, education and everything free, and in
addition a small sum monthly.
Besides the courses for pillow-lace, needle-lace
and embroidery, which are staple trades, there is
also a special course where those branches are taught
which change and fluctuate with the fashion, for
nothing depends more on this fickle lady than lace.
At the present moraent Irish lace happens to be

the mode, but the Austrian Irish lace has a peculiar
technique of its own, and the patterns are widely
different from the real Irish. More than two
hundred women are working at this branch alone,
putting together the different parts. Making the
motifs gives employment to hundreds of women in
various parts of the country—all women who, but
for the earnest efforts of the State through fhe


AUSTRIAN CROCHET WORK DESIGNED BY FRÄULEIN ANNA PLEYER
AND FRÄULEIN HOFMANNINGER
FOR EXECUTION AT VARIOUS SCHOOLS

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