05/03/2016
Irish lace
If you want to go to a country where wizards create fabulous designs with their own hands, then hit the road north to Ireland.
Irish lace is one of Ireland's national treasures, and they know it well outside of this country.
Products from the Irish lace - it's not only beauty, but also personality. The harsh nature, courageous people, gloomy medieval castles, brewing company Guinness and his famous book, and suddenly the exquisite beauty of lace ...
And it all began with a famine in the country, when it seemed that no one was to survive.
The main meal in the Irish peasants for a long time was the potatoes. Hunger began years from 1845 to 1849. Since the 1840s, the country began the agrarian revolution, which led for a big change in the smallholder system. And then there's unforeseen circumstances - a potato disease.
As a result, famine killed an estimated 1 million. People, increased immigration, the population of Ireland was reduced by 30%. The country was on the verge of death.
To save himself and family from starvation, those who knew how to make lace, do this hard work. Lace is highly valued, since it required a lot of time, and admired many wealthy ladies. The manufacturing process is involved: both men and women, and the elderly, and children.
Therefore, all members of the family do the individual elements, and then handed over to special workshops, where they collected the lace products. Sometimes, the family was the division of labor - some do leaves, the other - the flowers, one that was better at, and the work progressed quickly.
Each family had their own special secrets of the original colors and leaves, which are carefully kept from competitors. Then he collected everything in the basket and are included in the sale. Of the individual motives of Irish lace create fashionable dresses, collars, capes, gloves, tablecloths, napkins, handkerchiefs, umbrellas and many other products, and then sold in fashionable stores in Dublin, London, Paris and San Francisco.
In 1846, the first book of Irish samples knit hook. So, thanks to the remarkable idea weave crochet lace, the country was saved. A book has become for many a textbook on which comprehended the science of weaving.
Create a variety of lace patterns can only hand masters, so from the Irish lace products acquire a value and individuality.
