A 1966 study of Armenian lace by Serik Davtyan, published by the Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences (Institute of Arts), Yerevan. The Armenian text surveys the history of lacemaking, its links to stone carving and medieval ornament, tools, materials, regional schools (Van, Karin, Aintab, Cilicia, Constantinople) and named lacemakers. The book has a large photographic plate section of needle lace, crochet, bobbin lace, netting and embroidered doilies, coverlets, collars and headdress flowers, with numbered captions. It includes summaries and illustration lists in Russian, French and English.