Tina Frauberger

Many tatters are discovering the contribution that Frau Tina Frauberger made to the world of tatted lace. She particularly loved onion rings and these feature in many of her designs.
Here's a little more about this most capable lady.

For over a century European tatters, particularly in Germany, have enjoyed the designs of Frau Tina Frauberger (1861-1937). Her expertise in embroidery, textiles and lace spans the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, paralleling the Victorian and Edwardian periods in Great Britain.

Philippina Christina (Tina) Lauterbach married Heinrich Frauberger, an art historian who shared her interest in art and textiles. She was acquainted with many forms of lacemaking and embroidery, and in 1894 she published a comprehensive manual, ‘Handbuch der Spitzenkunde’, which became the standard of excellence, even for using sewing machines. However, she really loved tatted lace and went on to write two comprehensive handbooks about it: ‘Handbuch der Schiffchenspitze’ (3 editions - 1914, 1917, 1919), and ‘Schiffchenspitze’ (1921), all published in Düsseldorf. Designs and patterns from all these editions are still in circulation, and are now available to contemporary tatters free online in antique libraries.

After World War 1 the Fraubergers were instrumental in founding an institute where people who had been blinded during the war were taught many life skills, including tatting. In Düsseldorf Tina Frauberger supervised an extensive collection of textiles, lace, and local arts and crafts. These are housed in the Abenberger Klöppelmuseum with many treasured and exceptional pieces now preserved in the museum’s reserve collection.

During 2017 a special exhibition of the reserve collections of the Lace Museum Abenberg and the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf featured these special treasures so that visitors could appreciate the legacy of the renowned connnaisseur, Frau Tina Frauberger.

Read more about Tina Frauberger here on Craftpedia: https://craftree.com/wiki/Frauberger,+Tina.

Thanks very much @JudithConnors, for sharing something about the woman behind all those extraordinary patterns! She sounds pretty remarkable, too!

You'll find another of Tina Frauberger's designs here: https://craftree.com/projects/4711.

Thanks!