Editing Crochet (section)

==Irish crochet==
{{main|Irish crochet lace}}
[[File:Irish crochet.jpg|thumb|[[Irish crochet]] lace, late 19th century. The design of this example is closely based on Flemish [[needle lace]] of the 17th century.]]
In the 19th century, as Ireland was facing the [[Great Irish Famine|Great Irish Famine (1845–1849)]], crochet lace work was introduced as a form of famine relief<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/crochet-craft|title=Crochet &#124; craft|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref> (the production of crocheted lace being an alternative way of making money for impoverished Irish workers).<ref name="Crochet Lace Exhibit Catalog">[http://lacismuseum.org/exhibit/Irish%20Crochet%20Lace.pdf Irish Crochet Lace Exhibit Catalog] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601222756/http://lacismuseum.org/exhibit/Irish%20Crochet%20Lace.pdf |date=2010-06-01 }} Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles. 2005.</ref> Men, women, children joined a co-operative in order to crochet and produce products to help with famine relief during the Great Irish Famine. Schools to teach crocheting were started. Teachers were trained and sent across Ireland to teach this craft. When the Irish immigrated to the Americas, they were able to take with them crocheting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crochet.org/?page=CrochetHistory|title=Crochet History - Crochet Guild of America (CGOA) |website=www.crochet.org|access-date=2017-01-22|archive-date=2017-02-02|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202012440/http://www.crochet.org/?page=CrochetHistory}}</ref> Mademoiselle Riego de la Branchardiere is generally credited with the invention of [[Irish Crochet]], publishing the first book of patterns in 1846. Irish lace became popular in Europe and America, and was made in quantity until the first World War.<ref>[http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2005-04-19/article/21207?headline=The-Art-That-Saved-the-Irish-From-Starvation-By-ZELDA-BRONSTEIN-&status=301|The Art That Saved the Irish From Starvation] by Zelda Bronstein.  Berkeley Daily Planet, April 19, 2005.</ref>