Bulging sheets
The Bremen peasant woman wore the solid, narrow and colorfully striped, ankle-length skirt , known as Wullaken in Bremen , with her rural costume . Manufactured in home weaving mills, his weave consisted of flax ( warp thread ) and wool ( weft thread ), a material that was used in many traditional peasant costumes and is also known in colloquial terms as both wall . At the lower edge of the inside of these skirts, a pile of brightly patterned cotton was about 30 centimeters high . The skirts had a fabric circumference of just over three meters.
The story says that when the peasant women shed their traditional costumes in favor of bourgeois fashion in the middle of the 19th century , chair cushions or the like were still made from the material , which indicates the durability of the fabric.
Picture gallery
Back of the bulging sheet
Fabric sample (reconstruction) of a roll sheet
Fabric sample (reconstruction) of a roll sheet
Fabric sample (reconstruction) of a roll sheet
literature
- Focke, Johann : "The 'Hullen-Huben" and the Bremen rural costume " , published in the " Lower Saxony " magazine for people and homeland security in words and images - Bremen, 1919/1920
- Hoops, Heinrich : History of the communities Grambke and Büren in the Bremen area . Commission publisher J. Morgenbesser, Bremen 1905