embroidery - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2005 - 375 Euro Cent

Embroideries are fabrics from which the most precious dreams of fashion are tailored. Because of embroidery wars were waged, women abducted and men seduced. Embroidery is the only textile technology whose products are the result of an artistic destruction. Scissors, needle and thread followed the embroidery from China via the Silk Road to Babylon. Monks have carried the secrets of embroidery into the monasteries and imperial courts of Europe, where the stickers were given special rights. Empress Maria Theresia also confided this to the Bregenz Forest embroiderers, who in the 18th century used hand embroidery to lay the foundations for the stronghold of the Vorarlberg embroidery industry. She has been the Austrian export champion for decades. Vorarlberg embroiders the world: customers are at home in 180 countries on all five continents. Similar to the latticework of Guipure (aerial embroidery), the queen of all embroidery, the Vorarlberg stickers have built up a network of markets that inseparably combine innovation and quality work. Thousands of patterns in the archives of the embroidery companies tell of diligence, ability and always new ideas. Fashion tells stories that you can put on and take off. Now you can also put them on and on. On a postcard, an envelope, an album, on the skin, in a wallet. The smallest artwork of embroidery has a stamp. Couturier of this dress is the company Hämmerle & Vogel from Lustenau, old-established family business and stickers of the avant-garde. Here the most unusual wishes of the fashion kings become reality. Here a stamp was embroidered that you can wear. The leitmotiv of the unusual creation is the edelweiss, queen of the alpine flowers. For picking really flower and pollen stand out from the dense thread bottom. The spangled wreath of the stamp is indestructible like the myth of edelweiss. Embroidery is an art. Plastic, precious, timeless. And art actually comes from can. Art is what you can do. The dress of the stamp is an Austrian party dress. It will bear the date of its first edition, but will not go out of style. It will go around the world and tell a story that is quite unusual: which stamp already wears an embroidered dress? In 2005 it is a special stamp Austria. Her birthplace is Lustenau, metropolis of the Vorarlberg embroidery industry.