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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Dryden, Alice Jourdain, Margaret
Subjects: Lace and lace making -- History
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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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 jailes,Hold up the prices of their old brocades.Well 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 h.-fj. 494.dyed with saffron, and not to use Plate XC.
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