In the Kircheriano Museum in Rome are very ancient knotted game bags and nets, primitive man's ingenious invention for catching wild beasts, a thought which had perhaps come to him from his earliest expeimentation with the knotting together of two, and then three and four, vines.

Preface: The story of lace-making from its crude beginnings, the many ways in which lace was used, and the great peak to which it ascended in both beauty and popularity is a very fascinating one indeed.