Lace's an openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric. Lace-making's an ancient craft. True lace wasn't made until the late 15th and early 16th centuries. A true lace's created when a thread's looped, twisted or braided to other threads independently from a backing fabric. Originally linen, silk, gold,… (More on Lace)