Category: Creative Ireland

  • The Programme of the Amazing Lace Symposium 2025

    The Programme of the Amazing Lace Symposium 2025

    The 2025 edition of the Amazing Lace Symposium will take place on Saturday, 22 February 2025, in the Absolute Hotel, from 10am to 5pm. Here’s the draft programme: MORNING SESSION 11:05 – 11:20 Break LUNCH in the Harry’s on the River Restaurant – 1:05-2pm AFTERNOON SESSION There will be 7 tables with 10 places around…

  • Repair, Repurpose, Recycle sessions

    Repair, Repurpose, Recycle sessions

    As part of the Síolta Glasa project, Friends of Lace Limerick are offering a series of skills sharing sessions titled “Repair, Repurpose, Recycle”. Every Tuesday from 12 to 1pm (in November 2024 and then again from January 2025) at the Citizen Innovation Lab (UL City Centre Campus), we will be offering advice and support to…

  • South Armagh Lace Collective visiting Limerick

    South Armagh Lace Collective visiting Limerick

    This post was published first on Laces of Ireland. Between 4 and 6 October 2024, a delegation of The South Armagh Lace Collective came to visit Limerick , following the invitation of Friends of Lace Limerick.  Day 1 of the visit was spent in the Limerick Museum, studying and discussing pieces from the Florence Vere O’Brien and…

  • South Armagh Lace Gathering

    South Armagh Lace Gathering

    This post was published first on the Laces of Ireland project website. On 21-23 June 2024, following the invitation received from the South Armagh Lace Collective,  a delegation of Friends of Lace Limerick , including Susan Frawley, Fidelma Cosgrave, Toni O’Malley, Eva Ryley, Marina Poster and Gabriela Avram, undertook a trip to Culloville in South Armagh. On the…

  • Limerick lace pop-up exhibition

    Limerick lace pop-up exhibition

    For this year’s Heritage Week, we have decided to bring our lace out of the museum setting and on to the main street, so that people who are not frequent museum goers or are unaware of Limerick’s lace making history and traditions can come upon our exhibition accidentally. We want to demonstrate that lace making…

  • Limerick Lace Beginners Workshop

    Limerick Lace Beginners Workshop

    We were delighted to collaborate with the Northstar Family Support Project in offering an initiation into Limerick lace to a group of ladies yesterday, 28 May 2024. Eva Ryley presented the first steps in Limerick lace: setting the hoop , threading the needle, copying a pattern and attaching it to the hoop, creating an outline…

  • The 2024 Amazing Lace Symposium

    The 2024 Amazing Lace Symposium

    On Saturday 23 March 2024, after a break of more than 4 years caused by the COVID 19 pandemic, we were delighted to welcome lace makers, lace artists, lace historians, lace enthusiasts and lace curious participants back. The Amazing Lace Symposium 2024 was, once again, hosted by the fabulous Absolute Hotel, situated on the banks…

  • The Programme of the Amazing Lace Symposium

    The Programme of the Amazing Lace Symposium

    This is the final version of the programme: The Symposium will take place on Saturday, 23 March 2024, at the Absolute Hotel in Limerick. Friends of Lace Limerick will be at the venue from 9am, to welcome the participants and facilitate setting-up the pop-up exhibition. The symposium will open at 10 am, with a welcome…

  • Brainstorming with Giordana Giache

    Brainstorming with Giordana Giache

    The second brainstorming workshop was led by Giordana Giache, lacemaker, educator and reputed artist, founding member of Lumen Street Theatre , in the Limerick Museum on the morning of 24 November. Building on the results of the previous workshop, the participants discussed several topics. Below a sample of these topics: Again, the participants discussed how…

  • Brainstorming with Paula Rafferty

    Brainstorming with Paula Rafferty

    The brainstorming workshop led by Paula Rafferty took place on 9 November 2023 in the UL City Campus. Paula Rafferty is a renowned Quilter and Textile Artist and a fabulous teacher. We worked in groups and we kept on rotating in order to generate as many ideas as possible. Three topics were put to discussion:…