Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — The First Lace. [ARTICLE]

The First Lace.

The earliest authentic account of lace is about the sixth century, when high-born Italian nuns wrought it for the adornment of the sanctuary. Even before that the English nUns were famed for the very open English work, wonderfully lacey in effect. Monks as well as nuns gave their minds to it. St. Dunstan himself did not think it derogatory to make designs for the convent workers.