In its purest form, needle lace is simply a group of stitches worked either on themselves or a ground (either fabric or mesh), using only a needle, thread, and scissors. Needle lace is some of the finest needlework that can be done, and it has some of the most complex histories within fine fiber arts. From schools of lace in Ireland to the language of flowers in Turkey, needle lace has depicted motifs from across the world in a language of fabric...