A four-page encyclopedia article on lace by Charles Richards Dodge. It defines lace and surveys its uncertain origins, then separates needle-point, bobbin or pillow, and machine-made lace. It covers the main named varieties (Venetian, Alençon, Brussels, Mechlin, Valenciennes, Honiton and others), the threads used, lace-making in Europe and in colonial and peasant traditions, and the history of lace machines. A plate shows seven lace samples.

A 1911 magazine article arguing that a commercial flax fiber industry in the United States would need a co-operative, creamery-style system of small central mills handling the farmers' straw. It contrasts growing flax for seed with growing it for fiber, and reviews imports and the flax grades of Belgium, Ireland, Russia and Canada. It also describes retting methods, then breaking, scutching, hackling, and mill spinning (dry and wet), ending with reeling, bleaching and drying the yarn. Photographs show harvesting, hand breaking in Virginia, stages of flax preparation, a modern linen factory, yarn drying sheds and hand hackling.