Collier dress

The sheath dress in Gössl's own cotton/linen jacquard wears the extravagant Henndorfer ruffle of silk like a collier at the neckline. The slight tapering of the strap underlines the effect of this gleaming ornament.

The Henndorfer ruffle

The Henndorfer ruffle, also known as the rose ruffle, is widely loved above all as a decorative adornment on the Dirndl. Playful and yet never obtrusive, it gives even plain Dirndls a youthful appearance. The Henndorfer ruffle can be worked in one or two colours and in various sizes.

Jacquard

Twenty years after the invention of the mechanical loom in 1785, the pioneering spirit of the French silk weaver Joseph-Marie Jacquard brought about a groundbreaking innovation. He found a way to raise and lower the warp threads individually for each weft thread. What sounds highly technical opened up the possibility of weaving patterns of a fineness previously hardly imaginable into the fabric . That historic Jacquard looms are still used today to produce authentic fabrics for church, theatre and Tracht stands as a symbol of the inventor's success. At a local weaving mill, Gössl combines the Jacquard technique with traditional patterns of Tracht.