Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.
Inconsistent hyphenation in the original has been preserved, e.g. cutwork, cut-work; hand-made, handmade; lace-workers, laceworkers; may-flower, mayflower; needle-craft, needlecraft; needle-point, needlepoint; salerooms, sale-rooms; semi-circular, semicircular.
Inconsistent use of accents has been preserved, e.g. applique, appliqué; réseau, reseau; toile, toilé.
In the Index, Pierpoint was corrected to Pierpont to match the body of the text.
The main body of the text refers to the "Hockon collection", which is referred to in the index as the "Höchon collection". It is unclear which of these is correct so they have been preserved as they appear in the original.
Page 25: 'survival of the fitting' changed to 'survival of the fittest'.
Page 38: 'accompanying diagrams' changed to 'accompanying diagram'.
Page 42: 'little loop' changed to 'little loops'.
Page 127: '"Duchesse point" of "Bruges,"' changed to '"Duchesse point" or "Bruges,"'.
Page 192: 'of same period' changed to 'of the same period'.