Studio: international art (54.1912)

Austrian Schools for Weaving

allowed to pupils attending the schools. In all
cases its certificate of proficiency is accepted in
lieu of apprenticeship, so that, having satis-
factorily passed through the classes a pupil may
at once enter on his trade as a journeyman.
The relations between the manufacturers and the
schools are of the best, the superiority of the
training the boys receive is generally recognised,
and even before the pupils have finished the two
years' course they are sure of obtaining good situa-
tions, for they are almost always engaged in
advance.

In the present article we are concerned with the
schools devoted to one branch of industry—
weaving, which as mentioned above is a staple
in certain parts of the empire. The studies and

FIG. 3. PLANT STUDY BY FIRST-YEAR STUDENT AT THE
SCHOOL FOR WEAVING (FACHSCHULE FUR WEBEREl),
RUMBURG

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FIG. 4. PLANT STUDY BY FIRST-YEAR STUDENT AT THE
SCHOOL FOR WEAVING (FACHSCHULE FUR WEBEREl),
RUMBURG

designs here presented were executed in the
different German-speaking Fachschulen in the
provinces and in Vienna. Prof. Rudolf Hammel,
Director of the Imperial School for Textile
Industry, Vienna, is the inspector of the pro-
vincial schools, which he visits from time to
time, and a short time ago he arranged an ex-
hibition in his own school to show what was
being done outside Vienna. The results were
highly interesting; for although the curriculum
for all schools is the same, the individuality of
the professors and the pupils was everywhere in
evidence. The drawings were all well executed
and gave proof that much thought and good-
will have been given to the work on hand.
The general neatness, even spotlessness of the
work, left a very favourable impression, and it