Vintage Lace IV- Irish Crochet lace is truly an heirloom lace based upon varieties of crochet and tatting blended together to create an absolutely breathtaking machine created lace. When I was creating the lace in my research I was extremely impressed with the variety of the Irish crochet lace. History tells us that crochet began as a cottage industry in Ireland with a lace called Irish crochet or guipure lace. In the mid 1800's it became a large industry because of the need of the people to supplement their income due to the great potato famine of that time. It has been suggested that four Irish nuns who were trained in a French convent introduced crochet to Ireland. It was a common practice in that time for each person to become skilled in making one thing and one thing only, such as a leaf or a flower. Another person would then crochet the different motifs together using a background stitch. The methods of attaching the florets, or leaves to the crochet base were often held in great secret by the creators with the method passed down from mother to daughter only. No charts or records of the creativity were ever kept, it was all in the mind.

With that as my basis, I ventured to create Irish crochet lace. Vintage Lace III is an accompaniment to Vintage Lace IV. Where Vintage Lace III has the distinct florets and dimensional laces, Vintage Lace IV designs are the borders or edges to those designs. The possibilities of the laces are numerous. There are six designs in the collection.I hope you will enjoy using these designs as much as I enjoyed creating them.

Vintage Lace 4 - Irish Lace Collection (6 designs) available in: art/dst/exp/hus/jef/pes/vip/vp3 and xxx formats Price: $35.00   Buy Now Requirement: 5x7 hoop-All designs except two are for the 4x4 hoop

Projects created with Vintage Lace 4 Designs
	Vintage Lace 4 straight edge border used on a silk shawl.
Vintage Lace 4 edge design used on the bottom of a blouse. The belt is created using Vintage Lace 3 designs.
Table mat created using Vintage lace 4 designs.
Wine glass coaster created using the smaller triangle vintage lace 4 design.
	Edging on a baby bonnet using the vintage lace 4 design.
Tea towel embellished with Vintage lace 4 design used as an insertion lace.

For more ideas:

Recreating vintage laces on the embroidery machine

Recreating vintage laces-part 2

Vintage Lace on the Embroidery Machine

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