We possess no contemporaneous history of the origins and development of
the lace art, partly, perhaps, because of the tradition, strong among the initiated, of hiding its secrets, and of the consequent difficulty of an outsider to master them, and partly because successive wars and world cataclysms have interrupted or destroyed its progress. We have ample proof, however, that lace in some form existed in remote antiquity, — in early Eg3rpt, in Persia, in Bysance and Sjrria, where it was chiefly made by slaves; the Greeks and Hebrews speak of needle lace as known throughout all time.
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