Italian-language album of needle lace (trine all'ago) patterns from the DMC Library, first series, by Th. de Dillmont. It opens with a short history of needle lace (Reticella, punto in aria, Venetian point) and an explanatory treatise on tracing, lace stitches, festoon stitch, twisted and overcast bars and picots. Fifteen plates of finished lace (Figures 23-80) follow, covering Reticella squares and rounds, Reticella imitations with braid (spighette), and Venetian point laces. Back sections give full-size white-on-black working models and tables of DMC thread sizes (Cordonnet, Lin pour dentelles, Alsatia) for each figure, plus DMC publisher advertising.