The lace book
The Lace Book is a 1904 New York reference work on lace and lace making by N. Hudson Moore, written for collectors and students of the craft. Its plates reproduce sixteenth and early seventeenth century portraits of sitters wearing ruffs and collars of openwork and cutwork lace, with captions naming each sitter and artist. A designer could take from them the stiff, tiered silhouette of the ruff, the dense pattern of pearls and lace against dark velvet, and the scale of collar edgings.
