A history of Devon pillow lace (Honiton, Trolly and related types) together with a practical manual for making it. The first chapters trace the craft from Flemish refugees and early bone lace through Point d'Angleterre, machine-net competition and the decline and revival of the industry. Later chapters describe lace-making villages such as Beer and Branscombe, the workers, designers and trade. Part I covers materials, pillow, bobbins, thread and stitches; Part II gives step-by-step instructions for fancy fillings and nets worked on butterfly samplers. Illustrated with photographic plates of old and modern lace and of bobbins.

An elementary handbook on lace, published by Cassell in 1909 and written by A. Penderel Moody for both collectors and makers. The first part surveys lace types and history: peasant laces (Torchon, Cluny, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire), fine Trolly laces, Brussels, Flemish-Italian and Genoese tape laces, and Devonshire lace. It also covers the care, mending and cleaning of old lace. Later parts cover materials and outfit (pillows, bobbins, pins, threads, pricking cards), stitches and fillings, and step-by-step bobbin lace patterns including Torchon, Cluny, a Buckinghamshire pea pattern, a Russian lace table-centre and a Flemish bird. Plates show lace specimens and pricking diagrams, and the volume ends with advertisements for lace suppliers.