PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.

It is now eleven years since the History of Lace was written.NY ith the exception of the “ Colbert Correspondence,” whichthrows great light upon the establishment of the lace manufac-ture in France, little has been added to our general knowledgeon the subject. On many important points we are still in thedark. We have no evidence where the pillow was first invented.Of the beautiful products of the Spanish Peninsula and of theonce opulent towns of Nuremberg and Augsburg, we have norecords. Modem writers question the fact of point d’Angleterrebeing made at Brussels, and reject the history of Barbara Utt-mann’s lace-teaching in the Erzgebirge. All that is left to usis to continue to collect scattered documents as they presentthemselves, and leave to posterity the task of writing the Historyof Lace.

Kensington , July 1875.