embroidery Petit Point - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2010

Small dot and big embroidery Empress Maria Theresia liked to embroider for her life. The ladies of the court embroidered for the Empress's favor. Those who wanted to keep their rank and name at the Viennese court admired their art of embroidery. The entire Empire embroidered Petit Point. From 1720 to 1775 Petit Point was the exclusive embroidery art of the aristocracy. After hand-painted templates, queens and princesses used the magnifying glass to put 19 x 19 stitches per square centimeter onto the base fabric. From right to left. They passed the embroidery thread on the back over two threads, which pressed the embroidery motif on the front plastically upwards. Petit Point enjoyed cult status in the Viennese Rococo. This occupied Marie Antoinette for the French fashion world of Versailles. In 1804, for the first time edited templates for Petit Point embroidery accelerated their democratic breakthrough. The upper middle-class ladies, who always oriented themselves on courtly chic, devoted their leisure hours to the fashionable pastime. In the Biedermeier, the rose became the favorite motif of the sticking society. She graced her personal accessories with petit point embroidery and added specific attributes: tone-on-tone graded pastel colors matched the ideal of domestic harmony. With the shading of the yarn colors, the little dot embroidery got depth. Petit Point is a Viennese cultural asset with imperial letter and bourgeois seal. It is an internationally known and appreciated worldwide mark of high quality souvenirs from Vienna. The use of Petit Point embroidery on a stamp is a novelty. The embroidery company Hämmerle & Vogel from Vorarlberg is offering a new work of art to the collections of the philatelists: the Petit Point stamp. After the successful edition of the embroidered premiere brand "Edelweiss" and her successor piece "Enzian", the "Rose" has been chosen to add a pointed embroidery technique to the series of embroidered artworks the size of a stamp. For love of philately, the rose on the maker's mark has the color red.