DOI Heft:
No. 151 (October, 1905)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: The state schools for lace-making in Austria
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20713#0047
Austrian Lace Schools
shop has been opened for this purpose, and
at the end of the year the surplus, after
paying expenses (which are comparatively
low), is divided among the workers. The
first year yielded them a nice little sum.
In many of the provincial schools machine
embroidery is also taught, that is, when they
happen to be situated in districts where this
is a staple trade, for instance, in Dornbirn,
the Yorarlberg, and in Graslitz in Bohemia.
These schools are excellent, as also are those
at Cortina in the Ampezzo Valley, and other
places where hand-made lace is made. At
Graslitz and Cortina good designers have
already been trained, the standard of intelli-
gence being much higher in these towns than
in the mountain villages. But at present draw-
ing and designing play a very small role in
the training of lace-makers and embroiderers.
The designs are made in Vienna by Fraulein
Hofmanninger and Frau Hrdlicka, and by
some of the directors of these particular
“ Fachschulen.” These are distributed, after
approval, to the teachers of the various
schools, who in their turn instruct the pupils
in their intricacies, and give them the right under-
standing for what lies before them. Naturally this
requires some little time and much patience.
Modern patterns cannot be sewn in a perfunctory
manner. Austrian women are experts with the
needle, and famous for their good work and
fineness of finish. The lace is extremely fine and
delicate; nothing seems too difficult for these poor
DRAWN-THREAD WORK DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY
PUPILS OF THE GRASLITZ SCHOOL
UNDER PROFESSOR UNGER
peasant women and girls, who are learning to take
an interest and pride in things beautiful for the
sake of their beauty. They feel too that they are
no longer machines, but flesh and blood, and are
raised morally as well as physically by the better
nourishment, moral and physical, which they enjoy.
And in the course of time it is to be hoped that
higher things will be attained. The fact that the
AUSTRIAN CROCHET INSERTION
DESIGNED BY FRAULEIN HOFMANNINGER
PARTS MADE IN VARIOUS SCHOOLS
29
shop has been opened for this purpose, and
at the end of the year the surplus, after
paying expenses (which are comparatively
low), is divided among the workers. The
first year yielded them a nice little sum.
In many of the provincial schools machine
embroidery is also taught, that is, when they
happen to be situated in districts where this
is a staple trade, for instance, in Dornbirn,
the Yorarlberg, and in Graslitz in Bohemia.
These schools are excellent, as also are those
at Cortina in the Ampezzo Valley, and other
places where hand-made lace is made. At
Graslitz and Cortina good designers have
already been trained, the standard of intelli-
gence being much higher in these towns than
in the mountain villages. But at present draw-
ing and designing play a very small role in
the training of lace-makers and embroiderers.
The designs are made in Vienna by Fraulein
Hofmanninger and Frau Hrdlicka, and by
some of the directors of these particular
“ Fachschulen.” These are distributed, after
approval, to the teachers of the various
schools, who in their turn instruct the pupils
in their intricacies, and give them the right under-
standing for what lies before them. Naturally this
requires some little time and much patience.
Modern patterns cannot be sewn in a perfunctory
manner. Austrian women are experts with the
needle, and famous for their good work and
fineness of finish. The lace is extremely fine and
delicate; nothing seems too difficult for these poor
DRAWN-THREAD WORK DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY
PUPILS OF THE GRASLITZ SCHOOL
UNDER PROFESSOR UNGER
peasant women and girls, who are learning to take
an interest and pride in things beautiful for the
sake of their beauty. They feel too that they are
no longer machines, but flesh and blood, and are
raised morally as well as physically by the better
nourishment, moral and physical, which they enjoy.
And in the course of time it is to be hoped that
higher things will be attained. The fact that the
AUSTRIAN CROCHET INSERTION
DESIGNED BY FRAULEIN HOFMANNINGER
PARTS MADE IN VARIOUS SCHOOLS
29