Documento 2 - Lace – illustrations, samples and reports

Four folders containing very old Art Journals with illustrations, drawings of Flat Needle Point Irish Lace, Portfolio of Spanish Art, Portfolio of Italian Art. Manuscript & Inscription Letters for Schools and Classes & for the use of Craftsmen, loose pages of very old books from “The Art of illuminating”.

Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education. Irish Lace Report.
Upon visits to convents, classes and schools where lace -making and designing for lace are taught, as well as upon steps taken for assisting the development of the lace industry in Ireland, with illustrations of specimens of recently produced laces. The Report mentions Presentation Convents Tralee, Dingle, Killarney and Youghal, Co. Cork.

This box also contains two wooden embroidery hoops, a set of instruments for lace- making, samples of small crochet squares, lengths of crochet borders, sample of lace collar with the name Sr de Lourdes, Presentation Convent Killarney on the back of it.