Category: Learning
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Amazing Lace Symposium Open Call
The Symposium will take place on 22 February 2025 at the Absolute Hotel Limerick. We will have a new room configuration – round tables with 10 seats (banquet style). We will also have a pop-up exhibition on the tables around the room circumference, like in previous years. We are also proposing a new format: talks…
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Limerick lace classes new term
A new term of Limerick lace classes is starting in January 2025. You can join either a morning or an evening class. Beginners are welcome in both classes. To confirm your interest, please register and we will get in touch with more information. There’s no need to register if you were attending our classes during the autumn…
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Announcing the Amazing Lace Symposium 2025
Friends of lace Limerick are delighted to announce the date of our 2025 Amazing Lace Symposium: 22 February 2025! Mark your diaries! We are working on details at the moment, but we can tell you what we have so far: This event is supported by Limerick City and County Council through the Festivals and Events…
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Researching the sources of Limerick lace
An article brought to our attention by one of our members – the text of a lecture titled “The Timeless Prestige of Kilrush Lace”, delivered by Tom Prendeville to the Kilrush Historical Society at An Teach Ceoil on Tuesday, September 23rd 2014 and stored in the Clare County Library was the starting point. Around the 1800s,…
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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…
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Limerick lace beginner kit available!
The redesigned Limerick Lace Beginner Kit is accompanied by the Limerick Lace Video Series. Here you’ll find the video series accompanying the kit: Those interested can now order the kit online or buy it from the Limerick Museum. The redesign was supported by an Intangible Cultural Heritage grant from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media for…
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Limerick lace classes starting in September ’24
A new term of Limerick lace classes is starting in September. You can join either a morning or an evening class. Beginners are welcome in both classes. To confirm your interest, please register and we will get in touch with more information. Morning classes start on Tuesday 10 September 2024. This is a 10-week term,…
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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…
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Classes starting in May 2024
An additional term of Limerick lace classes is starting on Wednesday, May 1st, at 7pm. The classes are taking place on Henry Street in Limerick. This is a 10 weeks term, and beginners are welcome. The classes are being taught by Tony O’Malley helped by Eva Ryley. You can sign up here.
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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…