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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

LIMERICK, MAT

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c. 1900

Overview

A delicate Limerick lace mat with a fine hand needlerun scalloped edge from Ireland, late 19th C.

Floral design with little eyelets scattered around. Limerick lace rarely stitched today.

Limerick lace, a form of hand embroidery on machine made net, is not a ‘true lace’ as it is hand stitching on fabric and not made entirely hand-made. Patterns are traced by tambour or chain stitch and then filled by a variety of runners (darning patterns). Originated in Limerick, Ireland in 1843.

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cwa-org-78-2025.18

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Wednesday, 13 August, 2025

Completeness

72

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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