The Dun Emer Guild was the textile producing arm of Dun Emer Industries, which was founded in 1902 by Evelyn Gleeson, Elizabeth and her sister Lily Yeats with funding from Augustine Henry and a sum of money Gleeson inherited.
The stated aim of the Dun Emer Guild was "to find work for Irish hands in the making of beautiful things".
[3] Their products regularly won prizes at exhibitions run by the Irish Industries Association and the Royal Dublin Society.
[2] Some of the most notable works from the Guild are the tapestries for the Honan Chapel, Cork[7][8][9] in 1917, the vestments for St Patrick's church, San Francisco in 1923, and a carpet presented to Pope Pius XI in 1931.
[11][12] After Gleeson's death in 1944, MacCormack continued to run Dun Emer Guild until its store on Harcourt Street closed c. 1964.