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from the crest of the mountains down
to the foot, to nearly all the women OF
the mountain people, the wood carvcrs,
hammer, nail and spoon makers, lace
work serves as exclusive employment.
Some name is attached to almost ev-
ery great industry (either on account
of its invention or its extension1 which
thus receives the thanks OF later times.
In the Court Church in Annaberg, in
the Hartz mountains. stands Q monu-
ment of sandstone. and upon It this M
scription: Here rests Barbara Utt-
mann, died 18th OF January. 1915.
She it was that In the Jear 1861.
through her invention OF point lace. be-
came the benefactor OF the Hartz
mountains. This inscription is so
far incorrect in that the art OF lace
making was already practiced in the
Netherlands, consequently was not IN
vented but introduced. Yet should
Barbara Uttmann be known as the
benefactor of her homo and IS truly even
until this day, for it was she who
brought the bobbin into the Hartz
mountains.
It was the same in the Wild Ecke,
as the rough and wooded environs OF
the Pohlbergs, toward the end OF the
wear 1900, was called. The 9th OF /
October, 1892, through Kaspar Drechs-
Ter, from Frohman, the first lode of sill t
yer ore in Schreckenberg was diseoy- /
cred. Quickly from there the news ex-
tended and cuttings were made IN many /
other places, and even to Prozel the |
rich vein of silver ore was uncovered.
The whole region was raised and |
wakened up The hamlet which sprang
mp around the first mine, called Anna
berg, had already grown TO be a town.
Since 1926 Heinrich Won Etterlein had
been superintendent of the mines.
He was descended from patrician
family, was born in Nuremberg in 1885
and died in Etterlein in 1882.
To him in 1914 was born daughter
who was called Barbara, and was pre-
destined to give work and livelihood
10 the women of the Hartz mountains.
At an early age she showed great skill
and dexterity in all woman's work and
especially in laee-making, with which
only the wives and daughters of people
of the highest rank then occupied them
selves. This lace was used chiefly for
the decoration of the altar, the COM
munion cloth and the priests robes,
andrequired much time and great labor.
Barbara sought for that reason an easier
and less consuming method OF
making point lace, and in collar which
she gave to her betrothed, Christopher
Uttmann, on the morning OF their we'd
ding day has furnished proofs that her
efforts and search were not in vain. The
collar was the first bobbin work that
was seen in the Hartz mountains.
Christor her Uttman came from Lowen-
berg, in Schlesien, to Annaberg and
Grew to be a rich land d-helder, to the
surprise of those who had previously
known him. Recently this invention
of lace work has been called in ques-
ton, and it is now generally accepted
that Barbara Uttman learned it
from Nether1ander This is high
" probable and also easily un-
derstood since the settlement
of Netherland silk-weayers at Buchholz,
near Annaberg, took place in 1861, and
lace-work of white and yellow thread
may have been made, as it was by no
means unlikely that among the many
which the lode star of the mines drew
toward Annaberg some should have
been lace makers.
Certain it is that Barbara Uttmann,
who herself drove profitable trade in
point lace, both taught and extended
this useful art in Annaberg. How
quickly the same became national one
sees when in 1868 there broke out in the
Hartz mountains pestlenle which IN
Annaberg alone swept away eight hun
dred lace-makefs, the manufacture hav.
ing only begun in 1861.
From Annaberg, also this pleasant
and lucrative employment spread to al
the neighboring mountain towns, where
it also hacame specially. Villagers
who wished to engage in it must, ac
cording to an ordinance of 1909, pay :
tax for that privilege.
In the year 1900 the number OF steady
lace-r1iakers rose to ten thousand, ant
ere twenty years it reached ifty thou
sand, while about twenty thousand ad
ditional makers came in the winter sea
son. In later times in the summe
there were between thirty-fiye and fort,
Thousand at work. The profit sanl
with the increase Of workers. Wills
in the early part of the century skillfu
worker could earn ten groschen a day
afterward not even If she gave herself n
moment s rest from morning till evenin
could she earn more than six groseher
and in bad years even less. So little
indeed, that even hard, honest Wor
could not hinder poverty from enterin
the frugal little dwellings. The woye
lace which in 1909 began to be made !
England drove out the hand made
AS Is everywhere the case where ms
chinery contends with hana work,
lowered the price Of the latter to nluc
below its value, and the people of til
Hartz r5od6taine were obliged to eI
gage in the unequal struggle with tt
new power which gives this century i
Individuality. Alas! they did it not
the right manner, they sought not
perfection, but by eheapness, to vie vii
the Nottingham lace. That this is n,
the right way to contend against Il
machine work. said Beethold Sigi
mond in his entertaining book on Il
Hartz mountains. ..is plain. The har
workers can raise its value by inven
ing variety and perfection of pattern
instead of the welI-known though ches
curtain and cotton lace, and can, in
manner not possible TO the machin
make Valenciennes and Brussels poin
Hand work must become an art Whe
it is opposed to machine work. Throue
the discovery of photography many i
ferior artists lost their means of ear
ing living, but the fine portrait pain
er will never be supplanted. So it
with the point lace. The poorer wor
ers must give way to the machine. t
more skiliful remain. =
The people of the Hartz monntai
must carry on the contest with the ID
prices by the weapons of q higher Al
since they love the work of lace-makin
II is among them q tradition which
handed down from generation to &c
Grafton The two womanly industri
of the Hartz mountains, the lace-ma
ing, which in the sixteenth century,
gether with the Yeilmaking, came fro
Switzerland into the Yosges mountain
never spread so extensively as the bc
lze. 5.