Eye - 04 September 2015
From embroidery and fashion to Meeting unity
Quaker embroidery and fashion
The Friend who convened the first Quaker Meeting in Ireland, in 1654, was celebrated in a week-long William Edmundson Homecoming event at the end of July (see ‘First Irish Quaker celebrated’, 7 August).
The Homecoming saw a wide range of activities: from singing, poetry and readings through to the unveiling of an unusual dress.
Described as ‘a fusion of contemporary design with the charm of Mountmellick embroidery’, the dress is the result of a collaboration between fashion design Heidi Higgins and Dolores Dempsey, master practitioner of Mountmellick embroidery.
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