page_title: St. Gallen embroidery
hierarchical_section_title: St. Gallen embroidery
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ausschnitt aus einer für die Weltausstellung 1876 in Philadelphia geschaffenen Store (Gardine). St. Galler Stickerei. Zur 100-Jahr-Feier der amerikanischen Verfassung und der Erklärung der Menschenrechte. Löwen mit Wappenkartuschen der Schweiz und der Vereinigten Staaten. Kettenstich mit Baumwollapplikation auf Maschinentüll.
context_page_description: St. Gallen embroidery, sometimes known as Swiss embroidery, is embroidery from the city and the region of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The region was once the largest and most important export area for embroidery.
  Around 1910, its embroidery production was the largest export branch of the Swiss economy with 18 percent of the overall export value. More than 50 percent of the world production came from St. Gallen.
  With the advent of the First World War, the demand for the luxury dropped suddenly and significantly and so a lot of people were unemployed, which resulted in the biggest economic crisis in the region.
  Today, the embroidery industry has somewhat recovered, but it will probably never again reach its former size.
  Nevertheless, the St. Galler Spitzen are still very popular as a raw material for expensive haute couture creations in Paris and count among the most famous textiles in the world.
context_section_description: St. Gallen embroidery, sometimes known as Swiss embroidery, is embroidery from the city and the region of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The region was once the largest and most important export area for embroidery. 
  Around 1910, its embroidery production was the largest export branch of the Swiss economy with 18 percent of the overall export value. More than 50 percent of the world production came from St. Gallen. 
  With the advent of the First World War, the demand for the luxury dropped suddenly and significantly and so a lot of people were unemployed, which resulted in the biggest economic crisis in the region. 
  Today, the embroidery industry has somewhat recovered, but it will probably never again reach its former size. 
  Nevertheless, the St. Galler Spitzen (as the embroidery is also called) are still very popular as a raw material for expensive haute couture creations in Paris and count among the most famous textiles in the world.
caption: An excerpt from the World Expo 1876 in Philadelphia: the motif comemorizes the 100-year anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.  Coat of Arms with lions and the flags of Switzerland and the United States.
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