Excerpt from A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors; With a Bibliography and Five-Language Nomenclature, Profusely Illus: With Halftone Plates and Key Designs Perhaps a word of explanation should be said about the twenty Trude Grounds. They are fancies Of the maker's imagination, thrown in for what ever they may be worth; perhaps Out of pique, just to show that, rudimentary as they may be, America has at least the beginnings of an ability to originate her own lace. 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.