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ble at this point to trace the missionary paths of the various Catholic orders by
looking at the designs of the laces associated with each of the non-European
countries. Both the bobbin laces and the needle laces began to separate into
distinctive families of styles, while those laces (such as `sols') with less room
for adaptation developed the differences associated with changes of fibre.

Fig. 3. `Knotting', and how the `stitches' evolved into tatting