Re: [lace] Barbara Uttman, inventor of pillow lace?

[Ilske und Peter Thomsen]

Dear Jane, dear Lacefriends,
That's the problem about the old books they have some mistakes in them.
Barbara Uthmann was a very important person  at her time because she let
learn the people from Erzgebirge to make bobbin lace at a time silver mines
were nearly empty, but she didn't invent it. It was also Mrs Palliser who
wrote in her book that B. U. lived in Harz she didn't she lived in
Erzgebirge. Bobbin-lace-making came from the Erzgebirge into Harz through
the miners some times later.
Greetings Ilske, who couldn't wrote today because of an injection

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[lace] Barbara Uttman, inventor of pillow lace?

[Jane Viking Swanson]

Hi All,  I got an interesting booklet yesterday.  It's by Matilda Joslyn
Gage and is a reprint of an article written in 1870.  It's called Woman as
Inventor.  I bought it in a hurry so I was surprised to find a section on
lace when I got home.  In it Ms. Gage says that Barbara Uttman of Baneberry,
Saxony invented pillow lace.  I see that this is discredited in Santina
Levey in Lace - A History.  What I'm wondering is when did Mrs. Bury
Palliser's book come out?  They have it in my library in town but I thought
I'd ask all of you first.  We so often find that writers have used Mrs. B P
as a primary source and I'm wondering if that's the case here.  It's quite
an interesting few pages.

DH, four friends and I went to the American Precision Museum in Windsor,
Vermont, USA yesterday.  This is the main tool museum in the country.  They
have tools and machines that were used to make tools and machines and
rifles, of course.  It's really a neat place.  This booklet was in the shop
and I didn't want to keep everybody waiting so I bought it after a very
brief glance.  There is an e-mail address to write to for more information
but I googled Matilda Joslyn Gage first.  Turns out she was one of the big
three feminists/suffragists in the US along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony!   I'll have to read more about her and find out where this
booklet comes in to play.
Jane in Vermont, USA where there is a carpet of golden leaves in my yard!
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