. 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 jailes,Hold up the prices of their old dress in manufactures 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 jailes,Hold up the prices of their old dress in manufactures made at home. Shortly afterwards, at a meeting, he proposed thefollowing resolution :— That the ladies wear Irish manufactures. There is ?» Henry VIII. 1537. Against Irish more than seven yards of linen in their fashions. Not to weare any sliirt, shirts or smocks. smock, kerchor, bendel, neckerchour. ^ 4 Edw. 1\., Harl MSS. No. 1419. mocket, or linen cappe colored or with saffron, and not to use Plate CO ?J2 Ji cS ^ M-< o •Ti ^ c3 t-i p^ rjl -r. o o i-t h^ w « K o 3 ^s X ? -p I^ O -b> CD t~* ce O r^ .2 O -S i-i o ^ r^ -tJ o -^ o .y n3 • l-t 01c3 O s >> s ^ -73 Hi O To /ace page 436. ? IRELAyD 437 brought aiiimally into this kingdom near £1)0,000 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 tli^it,taking up little room, is easily run ; ])ut, considering theprodigious price of a womans head-dress at ten, twelve,twenty 23ouuds a yard, it must l)e 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 ascer
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