Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 115.—Flounce of Limerick lace (Ireland), embroidery on net. many able hands, requiring but well-regulated encour-agement to evoke a more serious development of theirindustry. At Moscow, in Russia, a lace school produces capital !50 II. LACES. work, bearing the impress of a Russian taste whichleans to a Byzantine style of art. Lastly, we may mention Ireland, where for some. Fig. 116.—Part of a flounce of Kenmare lace (Ireland), flat ands
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 115.—Flounce of Limerick lace (Ireland), embroidery on net. many able hands, requiring but well-regulated encour-agement to evoke a more serious development of theirindustry. At Moscow, in Russia, a lace school produces capital !50 II. LACES. work, bearing the impress of a Russian taste whichleans to a Byzantine style of art. Lastly, we may mention Ireland, where for some. Fig. 116.—Part of a flounce of Kenmare lace (Ireland), flat andslightly raised needlepoint lace. time lace-making has been pursued. At the time ofthe famine in 1846 special efforts were made toencourage the industry as a means of assisting asuffering, poverty-stricken population in the EmeraldIsle. The story goes that the first piece of Venetian FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 2$ I lace used as a pattern in Ireland was procured bya Jesuit, and much of the needlepoint lace has beensince called a Jesuit lace. In the schools attachedto many convents the girls are trained to embroideron net, and to do needlepoint lace. Crochet lace-
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