A German-language handbook for collectors and enthusiasts on antique needle lace and bobbin lace by Marie Schuette, second revised edition of 1921 with 172 illustrations. Part I covers lace technique: the origins of lace in fabric edge finishing, filet, drawn work and cutwork, needle lace types, and bobbin lace construction (braids, grounds, Blonde, Valenciennes). Part II is a history of lace by country (Italy, France, the Netherlands and Brussels, Spain, Germany, England), followed by a glossary of technical terms, a bibliography and an index. Illustrations are mostly photographs of museum pieces (Leipzig Kunstgewerbemuseum and others) plus some line drawings of techniques and grounds.

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.