A 1908 U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor report by special agent W. A. Graham Clark on the cotton embroidery and lace industry centered in St. Gall, Switzerland. It describes factory arrangement, schiffli (shuttle) and hand embroidery machines, the pantograph, stitch rates, wages, cloth and yarn prices, bleaching, freight, and cost breakdowns for sample embroideries, with plates, photographs, cost diagrams and tables. Consular reports follow on the lace and embroidery industries in St. Gall, France (Calais), England (Nottingham), Germany (Plauen), Belgium and British India, with statistics on employment, exports and wages.