A bound volume of the German periodical 'Stickereien und Spitzen' (Blätter für kunstliebende Frauen), the 25th-year Jubilee volume, published by Alexander Koch in Darmstadt around 1924-25. It combines short essays on the philosophy and aesthetics of women's needlework, design and craft with many photographs and drawings of tulle embroidery, bobbin and needle lace, filet, openwork, cross-stitch borders, cushions, beaded bags, appliqué and curtains by designers and schools in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It also includes a section on Hungarian folk embroidery, a piece on the Vienna Gobelin manufactory and its high-warp loom, and an author index. The text is in German.