This evening's Repair Shop on BBC1 (available on iPlayer, series 13 episode 2. starting 30 minutes in) featured an Irish dance dress worn by two year olds which was stained and had very fragile and tattered Clones lace around the collar and cuffs.
Clones is pronounced Clo-ness.
The dress dated from 1980 but the lace came from her mother's dance dress in the 1950s. As always they did a painstaking repair job and got the dress looking as good as new.
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But nit-picking me spotted a few inconsistensies:
The restorer said "it's referred to as lace but it's actually like a crochet" It IS crochet and if the definition of lace is a fine open fabric with small holes incorporated as part of the design then it IS lace.
They then briefly spoke about the history of Irish lace, their first image showed girls working with a crochet hook (correct for Clones) and the next one showed others doing what looks to me like needle run lace (embroidered net) which although made in Ireland was totally different to Clunes crochet lace, which itself was developed during the 1840s famine years a way to (relatively) quickly reproduce the intricate Venetian needlepoint laces.
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