DOI issue:
Nr. 117 (December 1902)
DOI article:Levetus, A. S.: Some modern austrian pillow and point lace
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0177
Modern Austrian Lace
peasant women have gained a living by making this provinces, peasants making their way over the
particular sort of pillow-lace in winter, and hawking mountain passes which separated the then Austrian
it about the spas and cities in summer. At the provinces of Italy from the South Tyrol and other
present time far more is produced on the Austrian parts of the Austrian Empire. But it was the
side of these mountains than on the Saxon. Of Bohemian peasants (Austrian subjects) who intro-
course the art was learned from the Netherlands, duced their method of point and pillow lace-making
probably being brought to Saxony, from whence it to the North Tyrol, for a large number of the men
came over the mountains with refugees, who also were employed in making roads and fortresses, and
taught the natives how to make " point;' or needle in mining ; and what more natural than that their
lace. wives should take their needles, bobbins, threads,
In the Southern provinces the art of lace-making and pillows to gain money during the dark wintry
came from Italy, most likely when certain Italian evenings, as they had done in the Erzgebirge. But
provinces belonged to Austria. There was at that change of location had no effect upon the patterns,
time frequent intercourse between the different which were carried out in exactly the same way as
TABLE CLOTH DESIGNED BY FRAU HRDLICKA ■
IX PILLOW LACE . EXECUTED BY THE IMPERIAL ROYAL
SCHOOL OF LACE-MAKING, VIENNA
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peasant women have gained a living by making this provinces, peasants making their way over the
particular sort of pillow-lace in winter, and hawking mountain passes which separated the then Austrian
it about the spas and cities in summer. At the provinces of Italy from the South Tyrol and other
present time far more is produced on the Austrian parts of the Austrian Empire. But it was the
side of these mountains than on the Saxon. Of Bohemian peasants (Austrian subjects) who intro-
course the art was learned from the Netherlands, duced their method of point and pillow lace-making
probably being brought to Saxony, from whence it to the North Tyrol, for a large number of the men
came over the mountains with refugees, who also were employed in making roads and fortresses, and
taught the natives how to make " point;' or needle in mining ; and what more natural than that their
lace. wives should take their needles, bobbins, threads,
In the Southern provinces the art of lace-making and pillows to gain money during the dark wintry
came from Italy, most likely when certain Italian evenings, as they had done in the Erzgebirge. But
provinces belonged to Austria. There was at that change of location had no effect upon the patterns,
time frequent intercourse between the different which were carried out in exactly the same way as
TABLE CLOTH DESIGNED BY FRAU HRDLICKA ■
IX PILLOW LACE . EXECUTED BY THE IMPERIAL ROYAL
SCHOOL OF LACE-MAKING, VIENNA
iH