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The development of tatting

The extract origins of the two most popular forms of lace- sew and tatting lace, which are known since the renaissance isn’t finally known. Probably both stem from the orient, where you can find lowly forerunner from grave findings antique time. The appearance of both types of lace appears similar but they base on different techniques. On laces there will use normally only one thread while the tatting works with a high number of enlaced threads. To produce firstly simple but soon very aesthetic figure they created drew and upon as “model books” draft, which are known often in there fineness as goldsmith sample. In Europe it was leading Venice, where stem the nicest tatting laces in 1600. You know them from contemporary portrait pictures but also in beautiful originals from the collection of our museums. The Netherlands (centre of Brussels) and France achieved the highest prestige in baroque and rococo. The courtly society got into a lace delirium in whole Europe and paid enormous sum for this. In which the gentlemen and the reverends don’t way inferior to the ladies.

In former times the Saxon Ore Mountains played an important role in the fabrication of tatting laces. About the 16 century began Barbara Uttmann to produce tatting to the people in the Ore Mountains because silver mining declines and the people became poorer and poorer. She was a widow of an Annaberger mountain lord and an economic thinkingly women. She published the products beyond the borders of the country as an artful issuer. The Ore Mountain laces won acceptation at the global market with the time. The advantages of the laces were the good quality and the low price. The style conformed to the actual fashion in Europe, at which some times a modest day flavor displaced the originally since the 19 century.

After tatting in the Ore Mountains became again to the craftwork through single workshops and producers cooperative` since 30 years it keep the producing limited but it had won a important higher artistic pretense.

Text:

Dr. Anneliese Hanisch