How to make lace.
An 1899 instructional manual on needle lace published in New York by Christie & Co., addressed to home lacemakers buying thread and patterns. Line diagrams show stitch construction step by step — looped meshes filling leaf and pear outlines, numbered figures, a threaded needle mid-stitch — alongside halftones of finished lace corners with scalloped points and scrolling floral grounds; useful as monoline net and looping motifs, diagram numerals, and dense openwork borders.
