PARAGUAY
Read MoreSpiderweb lace originated in Arabia. According to the book, Paraguay: Touristic and General Information, “it was taken to the Canary Islands and to Spain, and between the 17th and 18th centuries, it was brought to Paraguay, where the so-called sun lace from Tenerife took the name Paraguayan lace, or nanduti.”
Early 20th Century Migration of German-speaking Russian Mennonites into the Paraguayan Chaco. The first people arrived by way of Canada in the 1920s and the town of Loma Plata was finally founded in 1927. Their economic basis is agriculture, in particular, cattle farming. The colony continues to speak German (Plattdeutsch, or Low German), interchanabely with Spanish.