[2] At that time still white (saves the dye colour), later brown, it came under the influence of Spanish fashion, in which black and indigo blue were the expensive colors of the nobility.

[6] For dyeing, glue is boiled for hours in pots according to an ancient recipe, which is made from 16 kilos of cowhide.

The black-dyed linen fabric is dipped into it, slightly twisted, laid out on the meadow and then shined and pleated by machines that are more than a hundred years old.

Visitors are able to get an idea of the hard work and to follow the creation process of the stiff, shiny fabric, which is laid in hundreds of folds.

[8] In order to introduce visitors to the elaborate production of a Bregenz Forest women's costume, a seamstress, embroiderer, weaver or hat maker is present as part of a tour.

[8] Special exhibitions deal with different parts of the tracht (e.g., the belt, the hat), with the production and treatment of the juppe fabric (e.g., transfer printing and embossing) or with various costume designs from the region and beyond.

[5] With the support of the state and the European LEADER programme,[4] the municipality of Riefensberg was ready to set up a new costume dyeing facility in the business section of the old Krone inn, which was supposed to provide the fabrics for the continuing need for Juppen and give visitors an insight into the manufacturing process.

This means that the old farmhouse was not demolished and replaced by a functional new building, but the current user, the Juppenwerkstatt, adapted to the circumstances.

[13] When asked about the nature of his project, Gerhard Gruber thinks that the Juppenwerkstatt corresponds to the attempt to counteract the "museumisation" of the valuable Bregenzerwald costume, the thicket and the dust of decades and to keep the dialogue between tradition and progress going.