Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . and), flat needlepoint lace. value, this class of work is capable of considerablerefinement. Summary.—This slight sketch of needle-made laces design. Within the last few years lace-making convents have esta-blished drawing and designing classes in connection with their lace-schools. These drawing classes are branches of schools of art atCork and Waterford. The Cork School of Art, under the ableguidance of Mr. James Brenan, , now suppli
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . and), flat needlepoint lace. value, this class of work is capable of considerablerefinement. Summary.—This slight sketch of needle-made laces design. Within the last few years lace-making convents have esta-blished drawing and designing classes in connection with their lace-schools. These drawing classes are branches of schools of art atCork and Waterford. The Cork School of Art, under the ableguidance of Mr. James Brenan, , now supplies lace-schoolswith patterns for the various classes of Irish lacework. Fig. 115displays a flounce of embroidery on net worked at Limerick from adesign by a student of the school; fig. 116 is part of a flounce workedat the convent of Poor Clares Kenmare, in needlepoint lace, from adesign by Miss Julyan, of the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art; FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 253 will at least show what an important part they haveplayed in sumptuary arts from the fifteenth century toour days. It is to be noted that these laces have almost in-. Fig. 119.—Borders and insertion of Cork crochet lace (Ireland). variably been made of white thread. The needle seemsto have disdained using any fantastic threads; and fig. 117 shows two borders of raised needlepoint lace made at theCarmelite Convent, New Ross, from designs by the master of theWaterford School of Art; fig. 118 is a border of dainty needlepointlace made at Youghal from a design by the mistress of the DublinSchool of Art; and fig. 119 shows some crochet recently made atCork from new designs by Mr. Holland. Carrickmacross lace consistsof cut cambric guipure and cut cambric applique on net. Fig. 120 is ofa border and insertion of the latter class of lacework from designs byMiss Anderson. 254 II. LACES. specimens in which coloured or gold and silver threadshave been employed are excessively rare ; such materialshave bee
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