European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse In onto the girl uses a too treadle the Weaver working with her prepares Wool strands for the Zirkler Small operates lever for process thai Lengthwise Warp and determines the bavarian dirndl suit was made from a Zirkler hand Woven from Black Wool with Blue and White patterned like other cloth manufactured the material from j Walter Zirkler hand Weaver goes into goods for Export today there Are new clothes being i made in though few of them go to they Are made for cloth Fox these in a country where Only released prisoners of War and children can Purchase comes from communities and from Homes where artisans design their own then go ahead and weave in Falkenberg just Twenty Miles from Twenty six Ger Man refugees from Poland and their families work and turn out Yards of originally designed woolens and owner of House and the tiny hand weaving Industry is Walter a descendant of the first germans who left their looms in Saxony and Wurt Temberg Back in 1550 and travelled on foot to Peter the great who controlled Poland had invited Many German craftsmen to teach their handicraft to the people of that the family lived for generations in Lodz and in Bromberg until they fled to Germany during the latter part of the in Bavaria with Little other than what she could Walters sixty Earold Mother had the first Carpenter she met build her a he worked without Onkyu show him How photographs far she had to reach to the loom give him an idea of hew Large to make that was the Start now the family has twelve looms in operation seven in Castle and five in the town Zirkler weavers do their own dying from vegetable from Birch Brown from Clust nut purple from the colors Are and their material finds eager foreign buyers at the Munich Export exhibitions from where the Yard goods Are shipped to Many Zirkler cloth output is strictly controlled by the Export Branch of military the Only Ger mans who Wear his new or wools now Are those who Are Able to bring their ohm yarn to numerous byproducts have devel oped among the Zirkler the workers weave reprocessed Wool for their own Hammer Small Metal objects such As Ash Days from weave rag rugs and Felt and manufacture a Bamboo Type wooden Wall hanging decorated with hand painted later they Hope to make but in the meantime shuttles on their twelve looms Bob rapidly and mechanically Back and Forth in an Effort to fill current sex by Lisl Hubman port wooden shuttle carries Wool across the threads Are pressed tight Weaver pulls the Long bar toward 20
