Lace-making at Hamilton is now a thing of the past, replaced in the nineteenth century by a tambour network for veils, scarfs and flounces.
Essay on the Dress of the Early Irish. J. C. Walker. 1788.
The Image of Irelande, by Jhon Derricke. 1578.
In 1562. See Camden. Hist. Eliz.
Henry VIII. 1537. Against Irish fashions. Not "to weare any shirt, smock, kerchor, bendel, neckerchour, mocket, or linen cappe colored or dyed with saffron," and not to use more than seven yards of linen in their shirts or smocks.