1 The Weldon Series - you can find out more here.
2 The History of DMC
For many years beginning in 1746 the DMC business was a fabric painting business only, run by two brothers Jean-Henri and Jean Dollfus.
Fabrics were exported all over the world. 
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| The Business was then taken over by the nephew Daniel Dollfuss in the spring of 1800. Daniel then married Anne-Marie Mieg and added her name to his own which now became DOLLFUS-MIEG & COMPAGNIE, or D.M.C.
Young Daniel [while studying in Leeds in England] met the inventor and chemist John Mercer.
John Mercer had discovered how to 'mercerise' cotton thread. He found that by passing cotton through caustic soda caused it to gain the now famous silky look, strength and longevity.
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| Later on DMC during the 19th century linked up with the famous embroiderer Therese de Dillmont through Jean Dollfus-Mieg.
She then moved to Domach, a town close to Mulhouse where she established her own business and embroidery school and with the close co-operation of DMC became very successful.
Therese de Dillmont's Encyclopedia of Ladies Handicrafts, which was published in 1886, went on to be translated into many languages and distributed to seventeen countries. |
| Eventually both wars were to slow down the production of everything and it wasn’t until 1961, that the company finally merged with THIRIEZ and CARTIER BRESSON.
The new company has kept the trade name DMC but with the now famous horse’s head as part of their logo.
Weldon's Series
You can read about the history of the Weldon's paper pattern company here. |
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