This pattern is from the second album of “How to Make Crochet Lace” published by Cartier Bresson in 1920, which can be found on Antique Pattern Library Here. If you do any sort of fiber art they are a great resource.

The terminology in these patterns is a weird mix of british and american crochet terminology. This is my translation into american crochet terminology and standard symbols for the charts.

Stars

Each of the small stars are worked individually. You will wind up with a lot of loose ends. I tried to work around/ encase these in the edge rows to lower the ammount of weaving in I would need to do. 

Ch 8, join into a ring. 
Chain 3, work 4 dc into the ring, ch 5, then take the base of the current star and shove it through the third ch 6 loop made on the last star. continue working so the two loops are joined.
(5 dc into the center ring, ch 5) a total of 3 times. Join the last ch 5 to the chain 3 with a slip stitch. Bind off. 

Lower edge

ROW 1 - dc 3 cluster on the lower left of the 5 dc from the first star, (a) ch 6, sc into the bottom ring of the star, ch 5, sc into the same space, ch 6, dc 3 cluster onto the adjacent 5 dc group, then make another dc 3 onto the bottom left dc 5 of the next star. repeat from (a) 

ROW 2 - ch 9 (1dc and ch 6), (b) dc into the ch 5 from the previous round, ch 6, dc around the join between the last two 3dc clusters between stars. repeat from (b)

ROW 3 - ch 4 (1 dc, ch 1), (c) dc into the next stitch, ch 1. repeat from (c)

Upper edge

dc 3 cluster on top of the 5 dc from the star below (for the first one the first dc of the cluster will be a ch 3). ch 5, dc into the top ch 5 of the current star, (d) ch 4, dc into the top of the last dc (d), dc into the star ch 5 again, repeat from (d). ch 5, make a dc 3 cluster on the top of the next dc 5, repeat on all of the stars

With a US 7 (1.5mm) hook and “silkateen” I got a trim that was 4 cm tall.