An article by Dr. Marie Schuette tracing the formal evolution of Italian lace from mid-sixteenth-century cutwork (punto tagliato) through punto in aria and reticella to the early baroque lace of Bartolomeo Danieli and Venetian transitional needlepoint. It is organized around Venetian and French pattern books (Pagano, Vecellio, Parasole, Vinciolo, Danieli), cited by number from Lotz's Bibliographie der Modelbücher. Seven plates and a frontispiece portrait illustrate the lace types, and it closes with notes on Francesca Bulgarini's nineteenth-century copies of pattern-book designs.