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Excerpt from Lace, Ancient and Modern: Comprising a History of Its Origin and Manufacture, With Instructions Concerning the Manner of Making It Lace and gems are to women what stock and real estate are to men, and are the crowning glory of woman's attire; but, while many are familiar with facts in regard to gems, few are wise in lace lore, for little has been published upon the subject. The student in lace, there fore, is obliged to plck up a scrap of information here and a crumb there, and usually finds both unsatisfactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.