The romance of lace, its historical background, its present manufacture, its varieties and uses
A 1920 promotional history of lace issued in Chicago by Zion Lace Industries for Marshall Field & Company, tracing handmade lace traditions and the firm's machine production for retail buyers and trade readers. Loose pen-and-ink vignettes show weavers at hand looms, Levers lace machines, workmen with carts and bobbin frames, drawn in open hatching on tinted grounds, useful as spot illustrations of textile labour and machinery.
