Lily Yeats
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Lily continued to work under May Morris for six years, but their relationship was strained (she called her employer "the Gorgon" in her scrapbook) In 1895, Lily caught typhoid fever while in France, and her health remained uncertain for the remainder of the decade. After their mother's death in 1900 Lily and her sister Elizabeth returned to Ireland with their friend Evelyn Gleeson. In 1902 the three founded a craft studio near Dublin which they named Dun Emer (the Fort of Emer) after Emer, the wife of Irish legendary hero Cuchullain. Dun Emer became a focus of the burgeoning Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, focusing on embroidery, printing, and rug and tapestry-making. They recruited young local women to the enterprise, teaching them painting, drawing, cooking, sewing, and the Irish language in addition to the Guild's core crafts. Lily Yeats ran the embroidery department, which created textiles for church decoration and domestic use.
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| Dun Emer and Cuala Press publications explored in ... Dun Emer and Cuala Press publications explored in National Library of Ireland exhibition www.nli.ie/yeats/ - Web |
| Two Magpies on a Stone Wall, c. 1934 Two Magpies on a Stone Wall, c. 1934 www.artnet.de/.../lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=275B7C4CE96977F572D6CE0946C97851 - Web |
| Peonies and plums, embroidered cushion square Peonies and plums, embroidered cushion square www.artnet.de/.../lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=FC7B5E579443CAF5109181C3E20C4DBC - Web |
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