ABSTRACT
The league holds a meeting every Monday evening· at Neilson's Hotel, Ingram Street, Glasgow.
A correspondent contributes the following respecting lace work in County Mayo to the Irish Textile Journal:
Some efforts have been made lately to give an im-· petus to this industry. The country women in the locality of Cong and Cross have made for many years pillow-lace of the Eame description as that lace so widely known as Torchon, and for which there bas been such demand. It is sad to think that the Continent can bold our market, and drive out our Irish produce. Some time ago, the forewoman of a wellknown establishment showed patterns of Torchon lace to some ladies interested in the Mayo countrvwomen's work. They at once perceived our peasants could. copy it, but the forewoman doubted their capability. The ladies sent the patterns ,to the countrywoman, and received them exactly copied, !.lhowing that Irishwomen are experts. At the beginning of the so-called ''bad times" this lace was only made with cotton thread, and in an inferior manner, by the countrywomen for their own use. The art was certainly in a state of decadence, and the Cinque cento period was quite forgotten r The designs were not numerous, and bore some fantastic names, such as "the blackberry," "the breechiu,•r "the spider," "the shell," " the old tail," &c.
