!!!Bandlkramerlandl

Bandlkramerlandl ("ribbon chandler land"), a historic name for the 
textile-producing region around the towns of Waidhofen an der Thaya 
and Gross-Siegharts in the  Waldviertel Region of Lower Austria, 
where, from the 18%%sup th/%  century on, ribbons (Bandl) for 
underclothes, clothes and other use (girth-webs, coarse threads) were 
woven, mainly from domestic base fibre yarn (partly sheep wool) in the 
cottage industry system; the producers were smallcrofters, cottagers, 
lodgers and their family members, who were dependent on their 
merchant-employer. The merchant-employers (Bandlkramer) secured their 
position by providing the means of production (raw materials, weaving 
looms) and by monopolising retailing, for which they employed 
independent peddlars (Bandltraeger). Modernisation in textile 
production brought about the end of the cottage industry system, and 
from the second half of the 19%%sup th/%  century ribbons were 
fabricated in larger textile factories. The decline of the whole 
branch of production began in the second half of the 20%%sup th/%  
century.

!Literature
A. Komlosy (ed.): Spinnen, Spulen, Weben - Leben und 
Arbeiten im Waldviertel und anderen laendl. Textilregionen, 1991; 
idem, Waldviertler Textilstrasse - Reisefuehrer durch Geschichte und 
Gegenwart einer Region, 1990. - L. Hokr, Das Bandlkramerlandl, 1991 
(film by the OeWF).


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