An illustrated Victorian instruction manual for making needle-made point lace, published in London as a one-shilling book (thirty-second thousand, second edition preface). It covers materials such as braids, cords, Mecklenburg linen thread and scissors, how to lay and gather the braid, and then describes dozens of lace stitches (Brussels, Venice, Spanish, Alençon, Angleterre, Mechlin and others), connecting bars, wheels and rosettes, and edgings and picots. The final section gives patterns for stars, medallions, borders, insertions, cravat ends, collars, lappets and an alphabet, each with materials and thread numbers, plus a table of thread sizes for different articles. The book ends with publisher advertisements.