No. 3. Pocket-Handkerchief and Border
From A Renascence of the Irish Art of Lace-making by A.S.C.
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Like No. 2, the style of this lace is adopted from Venetian needlepoint lace of the seventeenth century. The designs were made by Mr. S. J. Murphy, of the School of Art at Waterford, and were worked into lace by workers under the supervision of the nuns of the Carmelite Convent, New Ross, Co. Wexford.

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