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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 2 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350465510
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 238x160x22 mm
- Weight 779 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 64 colour illus 700
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Long description:
Following the career of the Irish lace designer and inspector Emily Anderson (1856-1948), this book traces a network of designers, makers, organizations and institutions involved in the late-19th and early-20th-century Irish lace industry and explores their contemporary relevance.
Molly-Claire Gillett maps the Irish lace industry's connection to stakeholders such as the British Department of Science and Art, the Cork School of Art, The Irish Agricultural Organisation Society and the Irish Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, pairing a close study of patterns and techniques with an investigation of broader issues in design education, philanthropy and women's professionalization. Concluding with a consideration of contemporary Irish lacemaking - now proudly claimed as an element of Ireland's intangible cultural heritage - Gillett tells the story of a 20th-century shift in the conception of lace design as 'art for industry', and lacemaking as an economic necessity to both practices as expressions of identity, creativity and community-building.
Richly illustrated and framed within the narrative of Anderson's life and career as a woman designer and civil servant during a pivotal moment in Irish history, Irish Lacemaking is an essential resource for students and researchers in craft, women's history and Irish Studies.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Lacemaking and Design Education in Ireland to 1883
2. Lace on Display: The Mansion House and Cork Exhibitions of 1883
3. 'A Renascence of the Irish art of Lace-Making': The Growth of Lace and Design Education
4. Co-operation and Community: The IAOS Home Industries Societies
5. The Lace Inspectress: Emily Anderson at the Department of Agriculture and Technical
6. Three Bonnets: Lacemaking as a Twenty- and Twenty-First-Century Cultural Practice
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
