Bischoff Textil
Most of St.Gallen’s textile industry buildings were built in the time of the “Stickereiblüte”, during the boom of St.Gallen’s embroidery industry (from the late 1860s to the beginning of the First World War). Not so the company seat of Bischoff Textil AG. The business was founded after this boom, in 1927, at a time when premiums were offered for decommissioning existing embroidery machines.
The building is home to the company seat of Bischoff Textil AG today. Net to management and the development and design department, it also holds the largest private embroidery archive in Switzerland. It serves as inspiration for the company designers, as well as the couturiers of international fashion houses. As production now takes place in Diepoldsau in the Rhine Valley, as well as they company’s factories abroad, the machine halls are rented out to other companies. The factory shop is a treasure trove for high-end embroidery.
