Dear Jeri, dear Mark, dear arachnids, Jeri, your book is right . It was in 1746 that Jean-Henri Dollfus (artist), Jean-Jacques Schmaltzer (financial expert) and Samuel Koechlin (salesmen) founded together in Mühlhausen (German) = Mulhouse (French) the first factory. They colored and printed cotton fabric which were sold under the name: Koechli, Schmaltzer and Cie. Later, in 1800, the name changed in DMC = Dollfus-Mieg and Cie. At that time the started with woving and spinning. And from 1841on they produced sawing and embroidery threads and later threads for knitting and chrochet too. Now they became famous all over the world. Because of the geographic place in the north of today France France and Germany were the first important customers. But shortly later England got those threads too. Important for meeting people from all over the world are those World Exhibitions. And from the beginning on one could find exceptionell handicrafts from different countries. It was onthe world-exhibition of 1878 that Jean Dollfus meet for the first time the 32 year old Thérèse Maria Josepha von Dillmont from Vienna. The two were fascinated one from the other and so Th. Dillmont accepted an invitation. A short time later she moved to Dornach near Mulhouse and founded there a school for embroidery under the name of DMC. She published in 1886 for DMC the "Encyclopédie des ouvrages des dames" to give the women a help in all sorts of handicrafts which were in fashion at that time. This book wasn't only translated in several other languages but also republished very often. It's still available today. She prepared herself before lots and lots of material from all over the world. And let reconstruct those works in her school.
In a hurry because I am moving tommorow to my fashion seminar Ilske I want to add that I have those information from an article which was written in 1996 for the 250 year anniversary - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
