RAMS OFFICE > German lugurated of acquir- telegrams : fice. The rere only inal date r perfectly 20 designs lumber in idvertising =d to the vs that al- ititors had >ir difficult otifs were ly to lines craft. The ltly lacked absolutely telegrams. led unani- gained by 0 unknown 1 medieval symbolical nond-Volkmanit HAN DWEB E R E I E N ALE N MOLLER- H E LLWI G Entwurf ALFRED MAHLAU Design Von dem Verfall kunsthandwerklichen Schaf fens, der am Ausgang des vorigen Jahr hunderts seinen Höhepunkt erreichte, war auch die Handweberei nicht ausgenommen. Die Neubesinnung sollte für dies Gebiet aus der deutschen Nordmark kommen. Die Be lebung norwegischer Bildweberei griff auf Schleswig-Holstein über und rief hier eine ge sunde Werkarbeit hervor, deren künstlerischer Haltung das Schaffen der Lübeckerin Alen At the end of last Century when the cultivation of arts and crafts was at its lowest ebb the art of hand-weaving too declined. A new understanding, however, for the latter branch of applied art was to come from Northern Germany. The revival of Norwegian woven tapestries spread to Schleswig-Holstein and gave birth to a sound craft the artistic side of which owed much to the work of Alen Müller-Hellwig, a Lübeck artist. She systema- 25