Vintage Irish Crochet Collar 1930's Handmade White Sweet Lovely Excellent!

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Vintage Irish Crochet Collar 1930's Handmade White Sweet Lovely Excellent!
Graceful collar falls beautifully on your poitrine ! In excellent vintage condition. Truly a lovely traditional Irish Crochet design, feminine vintage piece.  Thank you for looking and good luck with your auctions ! See photos with yardstick for measurements. Suitable for framing, or wearing with a most special dress for a most special occasion, think weddings, or even with denim to make it your own !!
* An interesting history of Irish Crochet below !!
Irish crochet lace
is a style of
Irish lace
which is generally considered allied to rather than a true lace. It was originally developed in mid-nineteenth century Ireland as a method of imitating expensive Venetian point laces.
[1]
By 1845 it was being taught in the
Ursuline
Convent, Blackrock, Co. Cork. Within a few years it was being taught in almost every convent in the country and used as part of Famine Relief Schemes. Church of Ireland philanthropic leaders also taught crochet lace as famine relief projects in the north of the country and in Kildare and Cork. By 1851, approximately 16,000 women were working in crochet.
[2]
Charity groups sought to revive the economy by teaching crochet lace technique at no charge to anyone willing to learn.
[3]
This type of lace is characterized by separately crocheted motifs, which were later assembled into a mesh background. Other types of Irish crochet include
Rosslea
and
Clones
lace.
Irish Crochet Lace was traditionally made with a very fine steel crochet hook and fine crochet linen thread, though modern Irish Crochet lace is made with mercerized thread. It begins with an outline of the pattern on a piece of cloth. Each motif is then crocheted separately, using cotton cord for volume and shaping. The finished motifs are then basted (sewn with a loose stitch for temporary tacking) onto a cloth in the shape of the pattern. The motifs are then joined using
chains
and
picots
. When all the motifs have been joined together to form one piece of lace, the basting stitch is removed from the back cloth, revealing the completed lace.