Brenda, what a wonderful site, have spent an enjoyable hour or so looking
through it, lots to enjoy.
Happy lacing
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK

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Brenda Paternoster
Sent: 09 March 2006 21:25
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Subject: [lace] Crochet question


James Norbury in 1952 wrote:

"Of its first beginnings little is known, and the earliest record I
have been able to discover of crochet as an accepted craft was of an
exhibition held in Dublin in 1672, at which there was a special class
for crocheted articles"
James Norbury's Crochet Book.  Brockhampton Press Ltd  1952

http://www.white-works.com/Irishlace.htm
quotes the Royal Dublin Society as awarding prizes for outstanding
examples of Irish crochet in 1743

Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/

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