| PDF Format | Chapter | Title | Page/s |
| Part 1 (pages 1-64) | I | Needlework | 1 |
| II | Cut-Work | 14 | |
| III | Lace | 26 | |
| IV | Italy--Venice-Milan ("Milano la Grande") | 45 | |
| Part 2 (pages 64-133) | IV continued | Italy--Milan (continued) - Florence-The Abruzzi-Romagna-Naples-Genoa ("Genova la Superba")-Cantu-Sicily | 64 |
| V | Greece - Crete - Turkey - Malta | 82 | |
| VI | Spain - Portugal | 90 | |
| VII | Flanders - Brussels (Brabant) - Mechlin - Antwerp - Flanders (West) - Flanders (East)- Hainault | 109 | |
| Part 3 (pages134-208) | VIII | France to Louis XIV | 139 |
| IX | Louis XIV | 150 | |
| X | Louis XIV continued | 161 | |
| XI | Louis XV | 171 | |
| XII | Louis XVI to the Empire | 179 | |
| XIII | The Lace Manufactures of France - Alencon (Dep Orne) - Normandy | 188 | |
| XIV | Argentan (Dep Orne) | 202 | |
| Part 4 (pages 209-283) | XV | Isle de France - Paris (Dep. Seine) - Chantilly (Dep. Oise) | 209 |
| XVI | Normandy - Seine Inferieure - Calvados - Bretagne | 216 | |
| XVII | Valenciennes (Dep. du Nord) - Lillie (Dep. du Nord) - Arras (Artois) (Dep. Pas-de-Calais) - Bailleul (Dep. du Nord) | 230 | |
| XVIII | Auvergne and Velay - Le Puy (Dep. Haute-Loire) - Aurillac and Murat (Dep. Cantal) | 242 | |
| XIX | Limousin - Lorraine - Champagne - Burgundy - Syonnois - Orleanois - Berry - Poitou | 250 | |
| XX | Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Hungary - Holland - Saxony - Germany (North and South) - Switzerland | 258 | |
| XXI | Denmark - Sweden - Russia | 212 | |
| Part 5 (pages 284-366) | XXII | England to Queen Elizabeth | 285 |
| XXIII | Queen Elizabeth | 299 | |
| XXIV | James I to the Restoration. - James I - Charles I - The Commonwealth | 315 | |
| XXV | Charles II to the House of Hanover - Charles II - James II - William III - Queen Anne | 335 | |
| XXVI | George I - George II | 351 | |
| XVII | Smuggling | 358 | |
| XVIII | George III | 363 | |
| Part 6 (pages 367-446) | XXIX | The Lace Manufactures of England | 371 |
| XXX | Bedfordshire - Buckinghamshire - Northamptonshire - Suffolk | 375 | |
| XXXIII | Scotland | 418 | |
| XXXIV | Lace Manufactures of Scotland | 428 | |
| XXXV | Ireland | 435 | |
| XXXVI | Bobbin Net and Machine-Made Lace - Bobbin Net - France - Belgium - Machinery Lace | 435 | |
| Part 7 (pages 446-536) | Appendix | 459 | |
| Glossary of Lace Terms | 503 | ||
| Index | 507 |