Trim (sewing)
Trimmings ( from the French passement ) are stocking items that have no independent function, but merely as decorative elements on other textile end products such as clothing, upholstery, lampshades, curtains and other home textiles are applied.
As Posament include ribbons, woven braids, Frans braids, cords, tassels, ruffles, lace of all kinds, artfully covered ones decorative buttons and the like.
Posament: Word origin and usage
Originally passe ment knitted only of ( precious) metal wires textiles, so braids and braids. The way in which these original Metallgewirke has significantly influenced the peak production, because with the Posamentrie it was possible to produce a figural textiles, without being dependent on a carrier base. The counterpart is the embroidery, here the carrier base is required. The same principle governs the lace making.
Cords, tassels and the like come over the metal wire into Posamentiererhandwerk, because they were made earlier for the most part made of metal wires. Especially with uniforms the trimmings were still long run in metal.
The partially exclusive use of fibers, as occasionally happens, is today only a subsequent development, separating the Posament actually from its original material. Today the term encompasses almost everything that has been used for decoration of garments.
Job description: Posamentierer, Posamentrie
Are manufactured trimmings from Posamentierer (also Posamentier and Posamenter; formerly Possementierer, braids moulder, band heaters, strip Weber, stocking maker, Brämelmacher, Breiser, Breisler, Gorler, Gorlnäher, belt caster, Knopfelmacher, brush makers, Schleiermacher, Schnürmacher, Tress caster; French passementier ) by hand and with rope machines, braiding or knitting machines. The heyday of the profession in the 19th century. A few small factories and manufacturers are still working by hand and with historical machines. The Posamentierstuhl is substantially similar to a loom, but is smaller because it is intended only for narrow goods, and provided with special facilities for producing patterns, often with the jacquard mechanism.
In Austria the Posamentrie list as a separate sector within the textile -producing sector. The center of the trimmings and effect production in Europe was from the 19th to the late 20th century in the Ore Mountains to the mining town of Annaberg -Buchholz. Widely used this homework was also in the Basel area and Hotze forest; the local museum of Görwihl an automatic loom is not received, it will be shown demonstrations of Bändel production.
Examples
Tassels
Sharpen
Posament closure chains