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THE MODERN IRISH LACE INDUSTRY. 



doing. If she is merely a lace-producing machine, with no desire to express 

 beauty of form in the material, then the machine is bound to conquer, for it 

 will certainly out-nval her in accuracy and neatness. There is at the 

 moment a revival in the demand for hand-made work in many industries, 

 and all hand-workers, no matter m what material, must remember that 

 thought and feeling can be expressed as well by the stiff, unyielding metal 

 as by the pliant and supple thread when they pass under the worker's hand •' 

 and that without this thought and feeling their work is a dead thing and it 

 were better that it had never been attempted. 



Irish Spinniiis; VVheel. 



