I want to thank you for the infor about the Math node (Multi and Min)
I know I tried them last night, but I guess I didn't have them set up correctly.
I retried them today and I couldn't be happier with the results on both.

Just one question how did what I had set up , the edge blend and using the bump create a sorta transparency on the lace. I had the center part attached to one value of the edge blend (as white, the othere value nothing attached set as black, it was attached to the Transparency set to 1) and the lace was just attached to the bump...how did the lace get to be transparent?

PoserPro 2014, Windows 7, AMD FX-6300 6 core, 8 GB ram, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti