This very special piece is an exact reproduction of a vintage doily.  Written around the boarder is an excerpt out of Dante Alighieri's mentioning about Arachne, the mythological character that got transformed into a spider by goddess Athena. 

Dante Alighieri uses Arachne in Canto XVII of Inferno, the first part of The Divine Comedy, to describe the horrible monster Geryon. "His back and all his belly and both flanks were painted arabesques and curlicues: the Turks and Tartars never made a fabric with richer colors intricately woven, nor were such complex webs spun by Arachne."

Found only at SPIDERWEBLOVE!

-> Available as 1 piece or as a set of 4