I have (at least) two English language books with a mention of Barbara Uttman - both of which are a bit suspect in their accuracy!
Mrs Palliser's A History of Lace - Briefly paraphrased: Barbara Uttman nee Etterlein 1514-1575 introduced pillow lace into Germany having learned herself from a protestant refugee from Brabant. After watching the girls in the Saxon Hartz Mountains making nets for the local miners to wear over their hair, and with help from Flanders in 1561 she set up her own business in Annaberg teaching lacemaking. When she died she left 65 children and grandchildren, realising a prophecy made by a fortune teller prior to her marriage that her descendants would equal the number of stitches in the first lace ground which she made. Also an engraved illustration of her tombstone and another of a small ivory statuette of her. Alice May Bullock's Lace and Lacemaking has much the same info. Brenda On 6 Sep 2013, at 20:06, [email protected] wrote: > Has any book or booklet ever been written in English about this heroine of > lace making? Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
