Lori Howe has a great site, www.lacefairy.com, where you can look at Maltese lace and read a definition. It's a frames page, but the direct link is http://lace.lacefairy.com/ID/MalteseID.html Or go to the LaceFairy site, click on "Lacemaking", then on "Identification", then on "Maltese". Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k.com