Since we can't go on any field trips like the Gardner Museum for a while, I was taking a look through the state of MA digital archives today. I was impressed to find some old lace texts, but I particularly enjoyed looking through these historical lace samples in the Clark University collection.

https://digital.clarkart.edu/digital/collection/p16245coll1/id/101333

I found the "book view" version to be most helpful.

My source was DigitalCommons, which is where I found a bunch of the other old texts. https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=all_fields&q=lace