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Show 1 PAPERMAKIN o this I understood that they wished to ruin me and deprive me o my paper mil In mediaeval times the master had great authority over hi workers and Stromer recorded in his diary: "In the year 1391, o the twentieth of August, T took Franz and his brother Marcus an shut them in the tower." On the fourth day of their imprisonmen the unruly Italians sent for Stromer's brother-in-law, thinking tha he would be more lenient with them than their master. A reconciliation was effected and the men were liberated on the fourt day, but not until they had sworn that they would cause no further trouble and that they would thereafter do their full share o work at the paper mill The confinement in the tower had the desired resule upon th scheming Ttalians and they worked more in harmony thereafter Encouraged by the improved discipline Stromer Cng\hul additional papermakers, who were duly sworn like the others. A carpenter was needed to repair the stampers and vats,fcr, in 1302 Stromer recorded: "In my back room Erhart Zymerman has bee engaged to be my servant for one year. He is to do the carpentr work at the mill or he will polish paper, and his wife will sor rags, or hang paper on lines to dry, or count the paper. Wage will be paid them, a good house in which to live withal" Ulman Stromer operated the paper mill from 1390 t 1304 when he leased the property to Jérg Tyrmann, for a period o four years he pape er on which the Stromer m1n\wrnpl was written reveals the bull's head and cross waterma n three different forms but it s thought that the ps fiom the Stromer mill bu of Italian fabrication. The ‘ spaced, and the "laid-line used on some of the Ulman Stromer moulds as a watermark, bu do and they then offered also to give me an amount of paper Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
