Barbara Pauli

Her trade permit was given by the crown, and was thereby in fact a dispensation over the objection of the head of the Silk- and Clothing Guild.

It was common for women in Stockholm to be given a dispensation by the crown to manage a business.

Her fashion shop was named Temple du Goût and situated at the Västerlånggatan street by the square Mynttorget not far from the Royal Palace, and side by side with the business of Mrs Holming, which was one of the first Konditorei in Sweden.

Formally, however, the Pauli workshop only manufactured French models of caps, shawls, ribbons and other fashion accessories.

She is mentioned in the poem Råd i en angelägen sak ('Advice in a Difficult Task') by Anna Maria Lenngren from 1780; in the poem Nyårsvers ('New Year's Verse') by Johan Henric Kellgren from 1781, and in the first part of the history- and topography book of Stockholm by Johan Elers, Stockholm from 1800.