Thérèse de Dillmont

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Thérèse de Dillmont (born as Theresa Maria Josefa von Dillmont October 10, 1846 in Wiener Neustadt , Austrian Empire ; died May 22, 1890 in Baden-Baden , German Empire ) was an Austrian textile handicraft teacher, author of the encyclopedia of female handicrafts and also posthumously Name giver for products of the Alsatian yarn factory Dollfus-Mieg & Compagnie in Mulhouse .

Life

Theresa Maria Josefa von Dillmont came from the Austrian officer family Dillmann von Dillmont (Dillman de Dillmont). Her father Ferdinand (died 1857) was a teacher at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt. Her brother Oskar Dillmann von Dillmont (1853-1916) was promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal . Since her father died at an early age, her mother had to ask for help at the Viennese court to raise the children. Thérèse attended in 1873 by Emilie Bach founded embroidery school in Vienna and struck against the resistance in the family to unstandesgemäßen a professional a needlework teacher. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 she met the Alsatian textile industrialist Jean Dollfus-Mieg and was employed by him in 1884 as a handicraft teacher at the Dollfus-Mieg et Compagnie (DMC) textile factory in Dornach near Mulhouse.

Her encyclopedia of female handicrafts and several smaller sample books were published there from 1886 by a publishing house that bore her name . The production program of DMC's knitting yarns was listed in the appendix to the encyclopedia. The book was translated into several languages ​​and reprinted repeatedly. Handicraft stores were opened under her name in several major European cities: in Paris in 1885 , in Berlin in 1886 and in London in 1887 . The shop opened in Vienna in 1884 near St. Stephen's Cathedral was still called Dillmont until the post-war period.

In 1889 she married the businessman Josef Scheuermann in the Votive Church in Vienna , but died in 1890 during a cure in Baden-Baden . Her successor at DMC was her niece, whom she had brought to her home from a convent school in Brno .

She was transferred from Baden-Baden in 1909 and buried in the family crypt in the Wiener Neustädter Friedhof .

Fonts

  • Encyclopedia of Female Handicrafts . Dornach (Alsace): Dillmont, 1893
  • Cross stitch album , three albums.
  • Emilie Bach: New patterns in the old style , two deliveries.
  • The embroidery on mesh canvas
  • Alphabets and monograms
  • The knotwork (Le Macramé)
  • Filet Richelieu
  • Collection of various handicrafts . Trilingual.
  • Templates for satin stitch work
  • The soutache and how to use it
  • Alphabets for the embroiderer
  • Coptic embroidery
  • The breakthrough work . Mulhouse (Alsace): Dillmont, [Ser. 1]. [1904] Ser. 2.1913.

Reprint

  • The Bobbin Lace (1890). Edition Libri Rari by Verlag Schäfer, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-88746-226-2 (based on the original: Dillmont, Mülhausen 1910).

literature

  • Marianne Stradal: Therese de Dillmont. Profession and calling of a brave woman . 48 p. With photogr. Fig. Self-published, without year [approx. 1982], OCLC 254300364 .
  • Marianne Stradal: Therese de Dillmont , in: Textilkunst , Heft 3, 1979
  • Rachel Maines: Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2009
  • Rebecca Houze: Textiles, fashion, and design reform in Austria-Hungary before the First World War: principles of dress . Farnham Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015

Web links

Commons : Thérèse de Dillmont  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Encyclopedia of Needlework  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Marianne Stradal: Thérèse de Dillmont, a life for handicraft , published by Nadelspiel , August 28, 2009
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Publishing information in Encyclopedia of Female Handicrafts
personal data
SURNAME Dillmont, Thérèse de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dillmont, Theresa von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian handicraft teacher and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1890
Place of death Baden-Baden