A history of the Needle and Bobbin Club, founded in 1916 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York by Gertrude Whiting to promote lace and other handmade fabrics. It covers the club's aims, membership, lectures, excursions, charitable work, exhibitions and publications, including the Bulletin and the book Antique Laces of American Collectors. It also gives short biographies of the club's presidents and editors, with portrait photographs and a facsimile of the 1916 founding letter.