No. 9. Limerick Lace Borders
From A Renascence of the Irish Art of Lace-making by A.S.C.
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This set of borders of different widths was worked at a newly established lace-making class in connection with the St. Vincent's Convent of Charity, at Cork, from patterns designed by Miss Emily Anderson, of the Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork. The scheme of the pattern is one which gives the lace-worker favourable opportunities of displaying her skill in the use of a variety of ornamental devices, which she introduces into the spaces left between the intertwining sprays of flowers and leaves. Many of the eighteenth century laces of France and Belgium are notable for similar decorative motifs, especially the Points d'Alençon.
