Bring Out Your Lace 2024

Does your family have any piece of lace hidden away in a drawer? Maybe a family heirloom, or something you have acquired at some point that you wonder about.
Friends of Lace Limerick in collaboration with People’s Museum Limerick are organising a special event where you can bring in your own items of lace to be assessed, catalogued and photographed. We will share useful advice about lace preservation and storage.

Friends of Lace will also organise a pop-up exhibition with pieces from its members’ personal collections.

Friends of Lace are a Limerick-based group of lace makers formed in 2017 with the mission to bring Limerick lace back to public attention by contributing to the preservation, documentation and research on existing artefacts in museums and private collections, creating teaching resources and supporting novel interpretations and uses of Limerick lace. The group are working closely with cultural organisations in Limerick to enhance the visibility of lace making as a traditional craft with great potential. We organise public presentations, exhibitions, lace-making demonstrations, workshops and classes. We are doing research into lacemaking and lace history, we are publishing articles, and we are maintaining the online presence and the social media channels of Limerick lace.

The event is free and booking is not required.

Whether it’s in the attic or a family heirloom, bring it along for our experts!