It happens rarely that a foreign craft is so intensely identified with a region to the extent that it becomes its symbol. However, that is exactly what happened with the old Spanish lace from Extremadura, which in Paraguay even lost its name and was baptized with another that does not corresponds with the concept of its original name: a sun became a spider's web.

This process of acculturation is documented and delightfully narrated in this book, which also includes a chapter describing the technique of this lace; comments on its many motifs with a list of them; as well as the life of a ñanduti lacemaker, her world, her daily travails; that of a peasant woman for whom the making of each lace "is a creative act that is renovated with the start of each new piece which throughout its process demands constant imagination". As with every creative act, the intrinsic beauty of ñanduti is revealed, without a doubt, by the aesthetic sense of each lacemaker as she recreates her own world in her work.