Product Description
A detailed history of the historically huge role that lacemaking and associated industries played in the 19th and 20th century in Limerick City.
Limerick is probably the most famous of all Irish laces. When President Kennedy came to Limerick in 1963 the Lord Mayor presented him with a Christening robe of the lace, and other important visitors have been delighted to receive gifts of this prestigious material.
The making of this form of lace became possible when machine-made net became readily available, as it is a form of embroidery on net, being either chain-stitch (tambour) or darned net (also called run-lace), or a combination of both techniques.
Edited by Jacqui Hayes, 2014, published by Limerick Museum and Archives.