. History of lace. Kerry), he perceived something white. He drew itforth, and it proved to be a shroud of Flanders lace, thecovering of some person long deceased. In the beginning of the eighteenth century a patrioticfeeling arose among the Irish, who joined hand in hand toencourage the productions of their own country. Swift washmong the first to support the movement, and in a prologuehe composed, in 1721, to a play acted for the benefit of theIrish weavers, he says :— Since waiting-women, like exacting jades, Hold lip the prices of their old dress in nianiifactures made at home
. History of lace. Kerry), he perceived something white. He drew itforth, and it proved to be a shroud of Flanders lace, thecovering of some person long deceased. In the beginning of the eighteenth century a patrioticfeeling arose among the Irish, who joined hand in hand toencourage the productions of their own country. Swift washmong the first to support the movement, and in a prologuehe composed, in 1721, to a play acted for the benefit of theIrish weavers, he says :— Since waiting-women, like exacting jades, Hold lip the prices of their old dress in nianiifactures made at home. Shortly afterwards, at a meeting, he proposed thefollowing: resolution :— That the ladies wear Irish manufactures. There is * Henry YIII. 1537. Against Irish more than seven yards of linen hi their fashions. Not to weare any shirt. shirts or smocks. smock, kerchor, bendel, neckerchour. ^ 4 Edw. IV., Harl MSS. No. 141*.). mocket, or linen cappe colored or with saffron, and not to use Plate o 00 OC c3 1=5c3 P^ M P^ K g O f3 «+-! <E a: S^ -p fs O HJJ 3 ^GO 1—1 „ o < -t= -i S15 rC 1^ O r^ C3 (- ^ O -1-3 o -*^ O .i; 73 .1—1 -tJ -r^ 1* o oo o ^ f-j -l-= -1-3 c3 O TJ c3 r^ ■^ -t3 t~t B o s o <!O To face imge 43(5. IRELAND 437 brought annually into this kingdom near £90,000 worth ofsilk, whereof the greater part is manufactured; £30,000more is expended in muslin, holland, cambric, and the price of lace amounts to is not easy to be collectedfrom the Custom-house book, being a kind of goods that,taking up little room, is easily run ; but, considering theprodigious price of a womans head-dress at ten, twelve,twenty pounds a yard, it must be very great. Though a club of patriots had been formed in Irelandsince the beginning of the eighteenth century, called theDublin Society, they were not incorporated by charter untilthe year 1749 ; hence many of their records are lost, andwe are unable to ascertain the precise period at w
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