Margarete Steiff
Characteristics ď‚´Margarete Steiff was born in Giengen on July 24th, 1847.
Giengen Baden-WĂźrttemberg
When she was 18 months old, she got sick with poliomyelitis. When she was older, she visited a Sewing School and learned to tailor. 1874 her father rebuilt the house and set up a tailor shop.
ď‚´They where the first in the village who could afford a sewing machine. ď‚´ With several permanent seamstresses a small company developed.
ď‚´For the Heidenheimer market she and her seamstresses customized two sacks full of pincushion in pattern of an elephant in 1879. ď‚´Her first illustrated Steiff catalogue appeared in 1892.