Jane
I think crediting Barbara Uttman as "inventor" of bobbin lace is definitely
incorrect. What she may have done was to establish a lace school in her
town, thereby making it a lace making center. I wouldn't use Mrs. Palliser
as a respectable source. She was writing in the late 19th century.
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
The first edition of Palliser in 1865 says that Barbara Uttman had the honor
of introducing Bobbin Lace to Germany, not that she invented it.
Devon
In unseasonably hot New Jersey
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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
