Lace-Making in Crossmaglen

Lace-Making in Crossmaglen

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Location

Crossmaglen

Year

1961

Date

Production 01/01/1961

Length

06min 26sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

In this film, Ulster Television’s Charlie Witherspoon visits the town of Crossmaglen in Co Armagh to look in on the craft of lace-making. The local speciality was Crossmaglen lace, a form of ornate, hand-stitched lace with its origins in Italy. The film shows how the skills required for the craft had been put on the curriculum for Crossmaglen Technical School and Witherspoon talks to both the principle and teacher of the class, Mary McMahon.. Inside the school, he watches a class of eighteen girls engaged in learning the skills and he speaks to them afterwards about whether a reasonable wage is possible from producing lace products.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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