HANDWEBEREI HABLIK-LINDEMANN
[Elisabeth Hablik-Lindemann]
[Elisabeth Hablik-Lindemann]: Handweberei Hablik-Lindemann [catalog title]. Germany: Itzehoe in Holstein, n. d. Slim quarto. Text in German. Silver papered board wrappers printed in black. Bound with decorative rivets. [20] pp. 25 black and white illustrations. Sales catalog. Vintage cellotape residue to interior of rear wrapper. Silver rear panel scratched and spine heel chipped. A very good copy.
7.25 x 9.5 textile catalog with 20 pages featuring 25 black and white Hablik-Lindemann work samples. Undated, but produced after 1943 in reference to multiple designs by daughter Sibylle (b. 1923) who joined the workshop as an apprentice in 1943.
Abeline Elisabeth Hablik-Lindemann (Germany, 1879 – 1960) was a craftswoman, and master weaver. She trained as a pattern draftsman in Dresden at the private drawing school of the siblings Gertrud and Prof. Erich Kleinhempel, and then in the handicrafts design studio at the Anna Kühn company.
Lindemann spends three months in Stockholm in the weaving school of "Handarbetes Vänner" under the direction of Agnes Branting. There she got to know Swedish technology on the one hand, and new materials on the other and bought a flat and high loom.
In 1902 Lindemann founded a museum weaving mill in Meldorf , whose weaving mill and museum she ran until 1907. Using jacquard looms and a punch card system, it was now possible to produce large patterns more easily. The traditional patterns were developed further and new ones were created based on designs by Elisabeth Lindemann and local artists. Her weavings win a silver medal at the 3rd German Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Dresden.
Lindemann married the artist Wenzel Hablik in 1906 and the couple moved to Itzehoe. She ran her business there as "Hablik-Lindemann hand weaving mill". During the First World War it was a small company that quickly gained international fame.
In 1912 Hablik-Lindemann joined the Deutsche Werkbund and exhibits at the 1914 German Werkbund exhibition in Cologne. By 1920 Hablik became a German citizen and the Hablik-Lindemann hand weaving mill increased participation in trade fairs and exhibitions, including 1921 the Leipzig Grassi fair, the 1922 Werkbund exhibition in Königsberg, and at Herwarth Walden's “Sturm” gallery. The workshop receives its first award at the annual exhibition of German work in Dresden, 1924. In 1926 Bruno Taut orders chaise longue blankets and a curtain for the interior of his own house in Berlin.
Between 1927 and 1931 Hablik-Lindemann exhibits at Decorative arts exhibitions in Lübeck, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Monza and others, while well-known architects furnish their own houses with fabrics from hand weaving. The first workshop catalog appears at this time. After the War Hablik-Lindemann participated in trade fairs in Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne and Hanover, and Exhibitions in Flensburg, Brussels, Sacramento / California, and developed business connections to the USA and Canada, Holland, England, Denmark, France.
As a weaver, Elisabeth Hablik-Lindemann tried to bring traditional weaving techniques closer to the taste of the day through unconventional choice of colors and patterns and to produce fabrics that met the highest standards. She managed to work creatively and creatively and to combine this with a sense of the practical. Her workshop played a decisive role in the German weaving trade gaining new prestige. In professional circles, she was considered the “mother of hand weaving.”