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Edelweiss - Bookmark 'Swiss Chalet'

Edelweiss - Bookmark 'Swiss Chalet'

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Edelweiss - Bookmark "Swiss Chalet"

Color: yellow; Length: 18.5 cm
SKU: 1052.5.6.19
HK$112.80
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    Edelweiss - Bookmark "Swiss Chalet"

    Beatiful Swiss bookmark with Swiss chalet and Alps motif. The embroidery also depicts a wood bridge of a small creek, the Swiss Alpine flowers Edelweiss and Enzian and has Switzerland imprinted on the bookmark.

    Color: yellow background, various colors
    Swiss embroidery
    Size: 18.5 x 3.5 cm

    Embroidery has a long tradition in Switzerland particularly in eastern Switzerland around the city of St. Gallen. Initial figures state that there were already up to 100,000 employees in the St. Gallen embroidery industry at the end of the 18th century, long before the invention of the hand embrodery machine. This figure is probably somewhat exaggerated, but it is an indication of the importance of embroidery in eastern Switzerland. The strengthening of the embroidery industry was accompanied by the decline of the canvas industry, especially in the city of St. Gallen itself. It had already been weakened substantially by the production of cotton started by Peter Bion, and by foreign competition. Those without livelihood in the cotton industry changed to embroidery.

    The meteoric rise of St. Gallen embroidery can only be explained by a combination of economic, political, and technical conditions in the second half of the 19th century. In the political environment, it was the end of the American Civil War and the onset of free trade politics; economically, inter alia, the very popular mode of the second Rococo at the French court; and in the technical conditions the development of the machines. In the years after 1860, the demand for embroidered products rose so sharply that embroidery companies sprang up like mushrooms. Many farmers, artisans, and former weavers had an embroidery machine installed in their houses for credit. Thus, embroidery had soon become in large part homework and a major addition to the income of the peasants and craftsmen, mainly in winter, as it had partially been before in the linen or spinning time.

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    Canton of Manufacture Not manufactured in Switzerland
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