Saturday 4 February 2012

St.Gallen Embroidery

While in 2009, when I was in Switzerland for my Summer Exchange Program at Swiss Textile College, I happened to visit this eminent textile museum in St. Gallen, where we can see beautiful exhibition of historical laces, embroideries & cloth-pieces. Since the Embroidery has been made by machinery, the work has died out as a trade manufacture. Nowadays, only a small textile industry had been able to survive in St. Gallen because of high specialization and the production of powerful embroidery machines. The St. Galler Spitzen (as the embroidery is also called) are still very popular as a raw material for expensive haute couture creations in Paris and count among the most famous textiles in the world. Michelle Obama wore a St. Gallen embroidery dress at the inauguration ceremony of her husband on January 20, 2009.  Prominent designers such as Akris, Pierre Cardin, Chanel, Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, Emanuel Ungaro Hubert de Givenchy, Christian Lacroix, Nina Ricci, Hemant and Yves Saint Laurent have used the embroidery from St. Gallen in their collections.











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