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Show tower, in a small room." On th fourth day of their imprisonien these unruly talians~sent | fo Stromer's brother-in-law, thinkin no_doubt, that he would be a casier_man with which todea than Stromer himself. The forcig workmen asked the mediator { arrange for their liberty and Tecontiliation with their mabter They were let out of the towe the same day and Stromer ha them swear on oath that the would cause rio more trouble an that they would do their full shar of work at the paper mill ‘The trouble with the workme smoothed out, Stromer_employe other papermakers and they wer duly swom like the others.! T seems that a carpenter was néede at the mill to repair the stamper and vats, for in 1392 Stromer records_that, "in my back room Erhart Zymerman has been engage by me to be servant to me for on whole year. He is to do the carpentry work at the mill or he wil polish paper, and his wife is als to work for me and sort rags fo making paper from, or hang pape wpon lines to_dry, and to coun the paper. For days when the both work I pay them wages an furnish them a fouse in which. t five_and firewood withal. The Ulman Stromer mill prospered and more workmen wer hired, cach one taking the oath t be faithful and keep the secrets o the art of papermaking to them selves. The mills had originall been used for another purpose an were a group of half-timbere buildings "with many" gables, a shown in the old wood-cut_take from Schedel's Liber Chonicaru printed by Anton Koberger in Niiremberg in 1493. This is the earliest picture of the Ulman Stromer mill that is known and it was mad a hundred years ater the building were first used as a paper mil Tn Stromer's diary he gives littl insight into the actual working o his mill, most of the book bein devoted 1o the trouble he had wit his workmen, How interestin i would been had he written mor about the cquipment of the mill the processes used and the amoun and value of the paper produced It seems that Stromer ran th mill but four years as it is recorde that in 304 he leased th "large mill" to Tyrmann for period of a like number of years Stromer died in 1407 at the ag of seventy-nine Niremberg has iever _bee known as a great papermakin center and the average visitor t this city of half-timbered building and red tile roofs, is too much absorbed with the accomplishment of those super-craitsmen - A brecht Direr and Peter Vischer, t give, much thought to the firs chronicler of papermaking iGerutans . o 1 "In nomsne of p.o oanienncs of Stoners o Gt Srame a i Jogi mache papi s machen Tohannis tag <u Subenten und o dores den Closen Obsser Digital mage© 2008 Marriott Library University of Utah, Al rights reserved |