"The Women at Headford Make Lace"
- Richard Mansergh St. George, 1790
Research
-
Headford Lace is one of the oldest of the Irish Laces, with a history spanning over 250 years. What ...
-
'Headford Lace in the Annie Woods Collection' - a lecture by Norma Owens for Galway City Museum, Her...
-
The fascinating process of extracting linen fibre from flax plants is a very labour-intensive indust...
-
The amazing discovery that two British queens were customers of our Headford Lacemakers!
Revive
-
Headford Lace Project runs several bobbin lacemaking workshops throughout the year with our wonderful tutor, Jackie Magnin, and we occasionally invite guest instructors to teach other Irish laces.
Click here for more information or contact us to be added to our mailing list.
We are grateful for the support of Galway Roscommon Education Training Board and Galway Rural Development for their assistance in providing these classes.
Reimagine
-
Headford Lace Project have collaborated with local songwriters and musicians, The Whileaways, to com...
-
As part of the Irish Government’s Keep Well campaign Switching Off and Being Creative strand, an inn...
-
2021 was the year that the Lace Matrix project with Róisín de Buitléar was finally installed in St. ...
-
This award-winning, feature-length documentary was produced by Ed Coulson for Claremorris Community ...
-
The Space Between was an exhibition of contemporary lace art organized by HLP in Headford, and curat...
-
We are excited to announce an exciting collaboration with Drumadore and Claran Theatre.
-
Summer 2019 sees a new and exciting collaboration in Headford, Co. Galway as Headford Lace Project w...
-
Headford Lace Project in collaboration with Headford Environment Group has established a Lace Garden...
On the Blog
-
The Headford Lace Project, in collaboration with Tidy Towns and The Men's Shed, hosted our annual fl...
-
Words and Threads: A gift of poetry as we celebrate St. Brigid’s Day. We reflect on those women from...
-
On 14 October 2021, DCCI celebrated 50 years since its foundation and a special celebration was held...
-
Following on from the success with the local flax growing scheme in 2020, we decided to broaden part...