So far, the development of tulip motifs has been shown from the end of the 18th century to the 1920s and from the 1920s to the 1980s.
The boom that began in the 1980s inspired many other designers — not all of whom can be named here — to continually create variations. It’s not always easy to attribute the designs to their respective originators, as they often took up other people’s ideas, slightly modified them, and combined them differently.
Maria Jung, who is mainly known for designs with many tendrils, usually shows tulips with more than three points – with divided and undivided areas.
Leni Klingelhöfer designed the flowers more artistically.
Maria Deistler, (see: “Schwalm Tablecloth – round” Irmgard Mengel (see: “Special Offer: Linen with Pre-Transferred Designs (2)”
and Christa Waldmann (see: „Schwalm Whitework and Blue(2)“
brought through the variety of their designs, all kinds of tulip shapes into play, so it is not possible to assign them a specific design.
Anna Elisabeth Grein (1936–2024) should not go unmentioned (see also: “Pretty Contemporary Schwalm Table Cloth ” and “A Lampshade with a Needlelace Edging .” Trained at the Thielmann School, she returned to the original patterns. She preferred large, single-piece shapes with slight bulges — perfect for embroidering effective area-fill patterns.
Her divided tulip examples exhibit curves rather than points, which facilitates precise pattern execution at the edges.
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