Book No. 1 of Barbour's Prize Needle-Work Series, a trade booklet from the Barbour Brothers Company promoting Irish flax threads. It gives instructions for crochet, knotted and macramé work, knitting, netting and darned net, tatting, and embroidery, including lace edgings, insertions, table-mats, and wheels. Row-by-row patterns are illustrated with photographs and line drawings. It also has a glossary of knitting and crochet abbreviations, a prize competition notice, and thread advertisements.