Article by George Trobridge, headmaster of the Belfast School of Art, on design for Irish linen damask. It sketches the history of the Irish linen industry and explains how damask is woven on the Jacquard loom, with pattern repeats controlled by punched cards. It then discusses the quality of commercial damask design and the efforts of the Belfast School of Art to improve it. Six black-and-white illustrations show damask designs by Robert J. Woods, Lewis F. Day, James Ward, Edwin A. Morrow and David Gould.

A 1902 Magazine of Art article on the rise and collapse of the Irish embroidered (sewed) muslin industry, centered in County Down, in the early Victorian period. It describes the workers, wages, the role of Glasgow merchants, the effect of a firm's failure and changing fashion, and the near disappearance of the craft. Four halftone illustrations show an embroidered front, two collarettes and a cuff, with comments on design and stitches such as openwork and spoking.