A 2004 Master of Liberal Arts thesis surveying the history of lace in America and what it shows about American women's lives. It covers needle lace (drawn thread work, reticella, point, Battenberg, filet), bobbin lace, lace knitting, crochet lace and tatting. Topics include Ipswich lace making, Sybil Carter's Native American lace schools, machine lace, and today's lace guilds. It includes illustrations, a sample crochet edging pattern and a tatted edging pattern, a bibliography, and a list of resources.