LEOPOLDINE KOLBE INSPIRED Counted Cross Stitch Patterns

We are please two offer these amazing folk art counted cross stitch patterns inspired by the work of Austrian Artist Leopoldine Kolbe, 1870-1912, designed for the Vienna Workshop -Wiener Werkstätte.

The Wiener Werkstätte

In 1903, graphic designer Koloman Moser joined forces with architect Josef Hoffmann to establish the ‘Wiener Werkstätte’ (Vienna Workshop) — a large scale cooperative of artists and artisans pioneering modernist aesthetics, traditional craft, and the ‘total work of art’ or Gesamtkunstwerk, in which every element of an environment plays a part. While the male founders’ names have dominated the history books, women made up the larger number of this creative hub, among them painter and printmaker Mela Koehler, the designer Gisela Falke von Lilienstein, and graphic designer, Leopoldine Kolbe. Women’s presence and influence in the Werkstätte grew further still with the opening of textile and fashion divisions in 1909-10.

Each purchase contains 2 patterns:

PATTERN #1: is as drawn with black background and the checkered border.

PATTERN #2: is the basket and flowers on a white background-Shown stitched on Light Green cloth.