DOI Heft:
No. 392 (November 1925)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: Modern Viennese hand-made lace
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0293
MODERN VIENNESE HAND-MADE LACE
making has not become extinct, nor has
the desire for creating new patterns been
hemmed in for the want of workers to
carry them into effect. Before long lovely
specimens appeared on the market and
quickly found purchasers from abroad.
Though the ** Verein zur Hebung der
Spitzen-Industrie " was dissolved into
thin air when its field of work ceased to
exist, a few devoted artists came to the
rescue. Among these Frau Zweybriick-
Prochaska, who first learnt how to make
bobbin and needle lace herself, for she at
once grasped the truth, that unless she
mastered the technique of lace-making,
she could not be sure that her designs
would be feasible, however beautiful they
might appear on paper. This done, she
started a class for lace-making in her art
school, and, after their period of study was
finished and her pupils had become facile
workers, she appointed them teachers.
In this way she was able to free herself
HAND-MADE LACE. DESIGNED (TWO ON LEFT)
BY DAGOBERT PECHE. (RIGHT) BY ANNY SCHRO-
DER. WORKED BY THE WIENER WERKSTATTE
of the mechanical instructors and in their
stead have designer and craftswoman in
one and the same person. All the designs
made in her workshops are original,
essentially modern and in exquisite taste
both as to pattern and workmanship.
In the meantime the Wiener Werkstatte
had added to its many crafts that of lace-
making. The artists in their employ be-
came eager to show what they could do.
Here, too, first came proficiency in the
technique ; male artists of note such as the
late Dagobert Peche became dexterous in
the management of the bobbin, for great
artist as he was, he realised that without
this knowledge his patterns, however
beautiful they might appear, might prove
impossible transferred to pillow lace.
Naturally, the girl artists did not lag be-
hind. In this way a new school of lace,
eminently Viennese, has germinated and
blossomed, one that is not likely to die out
for want of nourishment, for its fount is
HAND-MADE LACE. DESIGNED (TWO ON LEFT)
BY DAGOBERT PECHE, (RIGHT) BY ANNY SCHRO-
DER. WORKED BY THE WIENER WERKSTATTE
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making has not become extinct, nor has
the desire for creating new patterns been
hemmed in for the want of workers to
carry them into effect. Before long lovely
specimens appeared on the market and
quickly found purchasers from abroad.
Though the ** Verein zur Hebung der
Spitzen-Industrie " was dissolved into
thin air when its field of work ceased to
exist, a few devoted artists came to the
rescue. Among these Frau Zweybriick-
Prochaska, who first learnt how to make
bobbin and needle lace herself, for she at
once grasped the truth, that unless she
mastered the technique of lace-making,
she could not be sure that her designs
would be feasible, however beautiful they
might appear on paper. This done, she
started a class for lace-making in her art
school, and, after their period of study was
finished and her pupils had become facile
workers, she appointed them teachers.
In this way she was able to free herself
HAND-MADE LACE. DESIGNED (TWO ON LEFT)
BY DAGOBERT PECHE. (RIGHT) BY ANNY SCHRO-
DER. WORKED BY THE WIENER WERKSTATTE
of the mechanical instructors and in their
stead have designer and craftswoman in
one and the same person. All the designs
made in her workshops are original,
essentially modern and in exquisite taste
both as to pattern and workmanship.
In the meantime the Wiener Werkstatte
had added to its many crafts that of lace-
making. The artists in their employ be-
came eager to show what they could do.
Here, too, first came proficiency in the
technique ; male artists of note such as the
late Dagobert Peche became dexterous in
the management of the bobbin, for great
artist as he was, he realised that without
this knowledge his patterns, however
beautiful they might appear, might prove
impossible transferred to pillow lace.
Naturally, the girl artists did not lag be-
hind. In this way a new school of lace,
eminently Viennese, has germinated and
blossomed, one that is not likely to die out
for want of nourishment, for its fount is
HAND-MADE LACE. DESIGNED (TWO ON LEFT)
BY DAGOBERT PECHE, (RIGHT) BY ANNY SCHRO-
DER. WORKED BY THE WIENER WERKSTATTE
287