Herbert Stattler: Lace Ware: An Album 1900-1954 - Hardcover

by Herbert Stattler (Artist), Martin Bauer (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Stattler's meticulously copied graphite drawings of 20th-century lace patterns expose the exploitative conditions of women's domestic labor

Through intricate graphite reproductions of pattern designs and archival papers, Berlin-based Austrian artist Herbert Stattler (born 1966) tells the story of the Dittmar & Ostertag Company which, from 1900 to 1954, distributed worldwide garment trimmings and bobbin lace made by women in their homes.