Heritage Week 2018 – Bring Out Your Lace 2018

Heritage Week is getting closer! Have you signed up for a Limerick Lace class yet? Are you going to the talk?

Here is the full list of Limerick lace-related events:

• 16-18 August, 11am – 5pm – Bring Out Your Lace, organised by the Limerick Museum, Limerick Archives, & the Friends of Limerick Lace at the CB1 Gallery, 51a O’Connell St, Limerick. A special event where you can bring in your own items of lace to be assessed, catalogued and photographed. Whether it’s in the attic or a family heirloom, bring it along for our experts!
• 19-26 August, 11am – 5pm-  ‘Amazing Lace’ Exhibition, organised by the  Limerick Museum, Limerick Archives, & the Friends of Limerick Lace at the CB1 Gallery, 51a O’Connell St, Limerick. An exhibition of Limerick lace, featuring lace garments, designs, drawings and demonstrations of lace-making.
• 20  August, 10:30am – 12:30pm- Lace-Making Class, organised by the Limerick Archives at the City Hall, Merchant’s Quay, Limerick City. A free lace-making class for beginners, that will show you how to make pieces of lace.
• 24 August, 12pm – 1pm – Limerick’s Amazing Lace Story, talk by Matthew Potter, organised by Limerick Museum at Istabraq Hall, Limerick City and County Council, Merchants Quay, Limerick City

A pop-up exhibition of Limerick lace from the collection of the Limerick Museum will be open from the 16 until 26 August in CB1. For the first 3 days, volunteers from Friends of Lace will be present to meet the public, demonstrate lace making and discuss with visitors. If you are the lucky owner of one or more Limerick lace pieces, bring them in and tell us their story. If you allow us, we will photograph your items and include them in the upcoming online catalogue of Limerick lace, together with their story.

Update:

There was a fantastic turnout for the Bring Out Your Lace event! A number of pieces were donated to the Limerick Museum on this occasion. We will dedicate a separate post (and maybe publication) to the lace artefacts that have been brought in. On Saturday, 18 August 2018, we had an official launch of the Amazing Lace exhibition, that was opened by Limerick vice-mayor, Cllr. Vivienne Crowley. The brand-new Limerick lace kits were on sale, together with the instructions booklet created by Toni O’Malley, as well as the Amazing Lace book by Matthew Potter.