The rise and fall of St Gallen textiles
St Gallen was once a world-renowned textile capital. Today, very little of the industry remains as more production has been shipped to Asia.
St Gallen was once a world-renowned textile capital. Today, very little of the industry remains. One of the last great names of the textile industry, Bischoff Textil, announced last month that it would outsource production to Asia. What remains of the textile stronghold?
Bischoff, an embroidery company from St Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, is moving most of its production to Thailand and Sri Lanka. Switzerland has become too expensive for the production and sale of high-quality embroidery and textiles.
Of the 1,000-strong global workforce, 76 people currently work in Switzerland. Of these, 45 are expected to lose their jobs.
The company is based on a long St Gallen tradition in the textile industry. As early as the Middle Ages the textile industry was the economic backbone of eastern Switzerland. For centuries, thousands of families and workers lived from manufacturing and trading textiles. Of particular value was St Gallen embroidery, which became one of Switzerland’s most important exports in the mid-19th century up until the First World War.
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St Gallen fabrics for the rich and famous
In the late 19th century, St Gallen was one of the world's top embroidery producers. Today, the tradition lives on in several companies, producing textiles for haute couture and ready-to-wear. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)
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On inauguration day with millions of people around the world watching, Michelle Obama wowed the world with her intricately patterned lemongrass- colored dress. Reveling in the glory behind the scenes was the textile firm of Forster Rohner AG, located in St. Gallen in northwest Switzerland. Forster Rohner provided the unique fabric known as etch lace, which designer Isabel Toledo used to make the dress.
The technique that produces etch lace is part of a centuries- long tradition of embroidery and lacework for which Switzerland - and particularly St. Gallen - is famous. Obama's Kenyan grandmother also wore a shawl made from Swiss fabric to the inauguration. Once the world capital for embroidery, St. Gallen had over 100,000 embroidery machines working during the golden age of the 1800s and its fabrics are still featured in haute couture around the world. Visitors can learn more about the rich history of Swiss textiles and fashion at the St. Gallen Textile Museum.
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All the big fashion designers at one point or another come to St Gallen for their lace and embroidery creations. A visit to the textile museum and to one of the leading manufacturers still operating in eastern Switzerland. (swissinfo, Raffaella Rossello)
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This video is about me visiting the city of St-Gallen in Switzerland and learning a lots about where my mom used to live when she was a kid.
St. Gallen is a city south of Lake Constance (Bodensee), in northeastern Switzerland. It’s home to the Abbey of St. Gall, a monastery of various architectural styles including baroque. The complex includes a library with a rich collection of ancient books, and a twin-towered cathedral. Nearby, the Textile Museum details this important local trade. Many buildings in the old town have decorative bay windows.
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Shades of Elegance – Fashion and Fabrics in Teheran Around 1900 / Museum Rietberg
When the St Gallen merchant Emil Alpiger returned to Zurich in 1896 after more than twenty years in Persia, his luggage included a wooden trunk full of Persian garments and fabrics. The family safeguarded this treasure trove for generations. Now, more than a hundred years later, the precious clothes, fabrics, wall hangings, and embroideries are focus of the exhibition “Shades of Elegance – Fashion and Fabrics in Teheran Around 1900” at Museum Rietberg in Zürich, Switzerland.
The textiles stand for the taste and love of colour of a foregone time and culture, but also bear evidence to a vibrant age of trading. They are the product of reciprocal cultural exchange: cultural hybrids that join East and West. Thus, for instance, Iranian weavers and tailors found inspiration in European fashion and Western motifs and went on to make them their own. The exhibition indicates the power that lies in creative exchange and takes viewers back to nineteenth-century Persia with all its vivid and colourful works of art, to an era we otherwise only know from old black-and-white photographs.
Shades of Elegance – Fashion and Fabrics in Teheran Around 1900 at Museum Rietberg in Zürich. Exhibition walkthrough and interview with the curator of the exhibition, Axel Langer (in German language, english subtitles). Zürich, Switzerland, November 27, 2018.
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The museum‘s internationally acclaimed collection of around 30,000 pieces includes textiles from Egyptian tombs, hand made lace, central European textile patterns and costumes, as well as Japanese wrapping cloth and Katagami-print templates. Testaments of eastern Switzerland‘s hand and machine embroidery over the centuries are a particular focus.
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