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Each pleated ribbon must be cut to size to fit the
individual rosette.
Ribbon-making
involves detailed
handwork
By KENDACE BORRY
LTITTZ - Have you ever
though about the ribbons and
premiums that you might
win at a farm fair or horse
show or some other contest
that you may have entered?
Those fancy strips of
material just didn’t appear,
they had to be made
somewhere.
One such place is the
Garden Spot Badge Co.,
located in Lititz, which has
been making ribbons,
trophies, and printing
programs for over 18 years.
The operation, which started
m the back room of the home
of its president and founder,
Oren Spangenburg, has
grown to where it is now
housed in an attractive
concrete block building
located on 7Nz acres of land.
During the peak season,
which is from May to
August, 52 people are em
ployed by the firm. Over
300,000 fancy rosette ribbons
are made per year. And,
Spangenburg added,
trophies made account for
about 40 per cent of the
business.
When asked how he got
started in the business,
Spangenburg related that he
had a background in graphic
arts and has always had
what he calls “horse blood”.
He decided to put the two
interests together and
started to make ribbons.
Since horse shows account
for about 85 per cent of his
orders, the two ideas seem to
go together nicely.
Originally a farm boy
from New York state,
Spangenburg came to the
Lititz area to serve his ap
prenticeship. He liked the
area so much that he decided
to stay.
Orders for his ribbons and
trophies come in from all
over the United States, ir-
eluding Hawaii. And he
thinks once the economy
strengthens up, his
business should show a
growth of 15 to 20 per cent a
year. In fact, he wonders
how long his present
facilities will be adequate
with his thriving business.
One thing that makes the
ribbon business unique,
according to Spangenburg,
is the amount of handwork
involved. Because of the
nature of the work, a great
deal of the rosette making
involves work that can only
be done by human hands,
piece by piece.
The ribbon used for the
rosettes is made for the
Garden Spot Badge Co.
especially, woven, dyed, and
finished. One million yards
of ribbon are used every
year.
The first step in making a
rosette is the pleating
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A series of three staple machines are used to fasten the streamers to the
Fancy rosettes get special attention with the
extra ribbon stapled into position.
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Buttons and ribbons of the rosette part of the
ribbon are firmly attached to each other.
process, which is done on a
machine automatically. One
of three machines can pleat
the ribbon which is thrown
into bins and then cut by
hand to the size to fit around
the outside of a ribbon. It is
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then stapled by hand to form
a circle.
The rosette ribbon gets
stapled to a vmolyn backing.
Then a sewing machine
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