'Clare Embroidery': An Irish Cottage Industry
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Article by Veronica Rowe on "Clare Embroidery," a cottage embroidery industry founded around 1890 in Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland, by Florence Vere O'Brien with the Scottish needlewoman Mina Keppie. It sets the industry against Lady Aberdeen's promotion of Irish home industries in the 1880s and 1890s, then describes the designs, stitches (satin, stem, smocking, buttonholing, cutwork, scalloping), D.M.C. threads, products, markets and the social life of the workers until the industry ended around 1939. Photographs show a child's smocked frock, an apron, a nightdress case, sample pieces and edgings.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1988
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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