Article · 3 pages
A short illustrated magazine article giving a popular history of lace from antiquity through the nineteenth century. It covers royal patronage, the development of point lace, Flemish, Venetian, Honiton and Irish laces, the trade and tariffs, and the introduction of machine-made net and bobbin-net. Illustrations show a royal lace bed-cover, Italian altar and wall draperies of the sixteenth century, and an altar drapery in Spanish guipure and Milanese point.