Volume 1 of Elisa Ricci's history of Italian lace, published in English by William Heinemann in 1913. It traces needlework and lace from early openwork linen through lacis (modano), drawn-thread work, buratto, reticello and punto in aria (including Venice and Burano point), with a section on ivory stitch and macramé. The volume is heavily illustrated with numbered photographs of museum and private-collection pieces, with captions giving date, technique and owner, and it also covers old pattern books such as Vecellio, Parasole and Ostaus. It includes an introduction, an appendix with plates and a list of illustrations.

Volume 2 of Elisa Ricci's study of Italian lace, covering the history of Italian bobbin lace and its regional centres, illustrated with several hundred numbered plates. The text opens with an introduction on the origins of bobbin lace, bobbins and pins, and early pattern books such as Le Pompe, then treats Venice, Genoa, Milan and the Abruzzi (Aquila, Pescocostanzo, Gessopalena, Offida) in turn. Each region has a text section followed by plates of edgings, insertions, fringes and collars, with captions giving date, design source and collection. Paintings showing lace are also reproduced, and there is a list of illustrations.

A 1914 article from International Studio by Elisa Ricci, translated by Miss C. Macfarlane, on the revival of lace-making and needlework in Italy after the mid-19th-century decline. It traces the revival of Burano point lace in Venice in 1872, the Aemilia Ars society in Bologna and its reticello lace, and the Industrie Femminili Italiane cooperative founded in Rome in 1903. Illustrated with photographs of needlepoint lace, coverlets, cushion covers and crochet from the Aemilia Ars, Beccadelli and Maraini workshops.