Cuala Industries. 113 Lower Baggot St. Dublin. Tel. 61085. Workrooms open to Visitors 9-1, 2-5. Embroidery List. Extracts from Articles in 'The Irish Statesman' and 'Ladies Pictorial'...List of work in coloured thread or wool (Duty free in England). Hand-embroidered table linen. Lunch sets in cream old bleach linen...Tea cloths in old bleach linen. Four corners elaborately worked in Celtic design...Fine white linen tea cloths...Tray cloths...Cosy covers...3 guest towels embroidered and hem-stitched in colours in pretty box, post free £1. Cushion covers in coloured linen...Linen bed spreads from £7 7s...Children's dresses...charmingly embroidered in linen thread (fast colours) with gay bunches of flowers...Shawls, etc., in Black Nuns veiling with wool embroidery and finished with four large tassels, £6 10s. 6d. Black cloth cloak £5 5s. 0d. Other colours done to order. Bedroom slippers in bright colours...Boudoir caps, cream net and coloured organdie, embroidered...All thread and silk used is fast and washable. Embroidery in silk on silk or on linen. Needlework landscapes, mounted as fire screens, from 7 guineas. Masonic and other banners to order. Silk shawls, heavily embroidered, from 8 guineas. Ladies dresses can be embroidered in a few days (time required depends on design selected). Estimates by return of post. Letters to Miss Lily Yeats.
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| Summary: | Written in manuscript hand at top right of recto in black ink is "New List" which is underlined. Accompanying envelope addressed in manuscript hand in black ink to "Cecil Harmsworth / 13 Hyde Park Gardens / London. W". [Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth (1869-1948), was a British businessman and Liberal politician who was educated in Trinity College Dublin]. Advertising leaflet details (over four pages), goods produced by the Cuala Industries and their corresponding prices; featuring a reprint of extracts from articles from 'The Irish Statesman' and 'Ladies Pictorial' on p. 1. Elizabeth Corbet [often known as ‘Lollie’] Yeats, (1868–1940), and Susan Mary [often known as 'Lily'] Yeats, (1866-1949), separated from the Dun Emer Guild in 1908, forming The Cuala Industries; Elizabeth controlled the press while Susan Mary was responsible for the embroidery division. The Cuala Industries moved to 133 Lower Baggot Street in February 1925. |
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[Cuala Press],
[n.d., accompanying envelope franked Dublin '21 Feb 1928'].
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 sheet (folded into [4] pp.) ; 12.8 x 9.6 cm.. more |
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