ORIGIN OF IRISH LACE.
Irish laco originated from the failure of tho potato ci"op that caused Vhe famine of 1846. The abbess of a convent in the County Cork, Ireland, looking about for some lucrative employment to help the half-starved children who attended her school, unravelled thread by tbread a scrap -of point de Milan, and finally mastered the complicated details. She then selected the girls who were quickest at needlework, and taught them.' what she had painfully learned. The new industry prospered, and one of the pupii§7 in "a pardonable' "bull," declared that "if it had not been for the famine we would all havebeen starved.' 1 .■--•■:•-.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 September 1913, Page 2
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108ORIGIN OF IRISH LACE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 September 1913, Page 2
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