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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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. 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 brocades.Well 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 h.-g. 494.dyed with saffron, and not to use Plate XC.
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