Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 117.—Borders of New Ross lace (Ireland), raised needlepoint lace. making is a speciality (see fig. 114), from which muchbetter results could be obtained. The Departmentof Science and Art of the Committee of Council onEducation has latterly been called upon to aid in thedevelopment of the Irish lace industry.* * The particular form of encouragement given by this Departmenthas been that of payments on results of instruction in drawing and
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 117.—Borders of New Ross lace (Ireland), raised needlepoint lace. making is a speciality (see fig. 114), from which muchbetter results could be obtained. The Departmentof Science and Art of the Committee of Council onEducation has latterly been called upon to aid in thedevelopment of the Irish lace industry.* * The particular form of encouragement given by this Departmenthas been that of payments on results of instruction in drawing and 252 II. LACES. In crochet lace, which starts from no foundation, asdoes embroidery with a crochet needle (see p. 4), thework is done upon no tracing on parchment or paper :the work is done in the hand, very much after themanner of knitting. The thread is looped, pulledthrough the loop as in chain-stitch, knotted, and soforth. By a series of interlocking chain-stitches thiscrochet lace is produced. Without attaining to great. Fig. 118.—Border of Youghal lace (Ireland), 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
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