DOI issue:
No. 151 (October, 1905)
DOI article:Levetus, A. S.: The state schools for lace-making in Austria
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20713#0042
Austrian Lace Schools
EMBROIDERY FOR BLOUSE
way. The market has become flooded with these
patterns, causing a glut, and the scanty earnings of
the workers had, at the time the State stepped
in, almost arrived at the vanishing point. The
mothers are not able to realize what lies behind
the present, but the State recognizes this ; and as
the earnings of the little
maidens are of great
moment, it pays the
children during the time
they are learning rather
more than they would
earn under the old
system. In this way
competent and intelli-
gent workers are being
trained, for no one
would question the in-
fluence for good on
the children’s minds.
And being thus able
to earn money at school
they are not obliged to
go to work in the fields,
and this ensures them
those delicate hands
which are most neces-
sary for the finer and
better paid work.
Instead ot the middleman, the above-mentioned
Verein zur Hebung der Spitzen-Industrie has its
agents, who are sufficiently paid, and who take
orders, which are delivered to the central schools,
whence they are distributed to the different schools
in the provinces. The teachers in their turn dis-
DESIGNED BY FRAULEIN HRDLICKA
EXECUTED AT CHRUDIM SCHOOL
NEEDLE-POINT LACE FAN
DESIGNED BY FRAULEIN HOFMANNINGER
EXECUTED AT THE GOSSENGRUN SCHOOL
EMBROIDERY FOR BLOUSE
way. The market has become flooded with these
patterns, causing a glut, and the scanty earnings of
the workers had, at the time the State stepped
in, almost arrived at the vanishing point. The
mothers are not able to realize what lies behind
the present, but the State recognizes this ; and as
the earnings of the little
maidens are of great
moment, it pays the
children during the time
they are learning rather
more than they would
earn under the old
system. In this way
competent and intelli-
gent workers are being
trained, for no one
would question the in-
fluence for good on
the children’s minds.
And being thus able
to earn money at school
they are not obliged to
go to work in the fields,
and this ensures them
those delicate hands
which are most neces-
sary for the finer and
better paid work.
Instead ot the middleman, the above-mentioned
Verein zur Hebung der Spitzen-Industrie has its
agents, who are sufficiently paid, and who take
orders, which are delivered to the central schools,
whence they are distributed to the different schools
in the provinces. The teachers in their turn dis-
DESIGNED BY FRAULEIN HRDLICKA
EXECUTED AT CHRUDIM SCHOOL
NEEDLE-POINT LACE FAN
DESIGNED BY FRAULEIN HOFMANNINGER
EXECUTED AT THE GOSSENGRUN SCHOOL