A column from the Minnesota Weaver in which Lotus Stack, associate curator of textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, begins a series on the museum's tapestry collection. It discusses the Brussels tapestry 'The Month of September' (c. 1525-1528), from a twelve-month series attributed to Van Orley, covering its iconography, its Gothic and Renaissance influences, and related editions in other museums. It also gives technical details of the weave: wool with silk highlights, 19 warp ends per inch, about 80 wefts per inch, and shading by hatching and combining yarns in one shed.

A short article from the Minnesota Weaver on the historical role of tapestries in late medieval and early Renaissance Europe, where they served as decoration, insulation, and displays of wealth. It focuses on the early seventeenth century French Artemisia series, ten pieces of which are held by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and explains how the story was tied to Catherine de Medici and later regent queens. A captioned photograph shows one tapestry from the series, woven in 1610 for Marie de Medici.

A short article by Lotus Stack, curator in the Textile Department of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, on how medieval to pre-industrial European tapestries were produced. It covers the supply of wool, silk and metallic yarns, spinning, dyeing regulations, guild training and apprenticeship, task-based pay, and commissioned versus ready-made tapestries. It ends with a note on how mille-fleurs tapestries were assembled from small design elements, illustrated by a French tapestry of about 1520 in the museum's collection.

A one-page Swatch Page column by Lotus Stack explaining how to weave a galloon braid, a spaced inkle-woven trim with two narrow warp-faced bands separated by a gap and joined by crossed weft cords. She describes the warping, the use of a fine and a heavy weft, and a four-step weaving sequence, illustrated by a line diagram. A closing note revises her earlier advice on weaving velvet and announces the last swatch page until fall.

A two-page Swatch Page column by Lotus Stack on weaving warp-pile velvet on a four-harness loom. It explains the two-warp setup, including improvising a second warp beam and brake, and gives the sampling details: 20/2 cotton ground, 6/2 rayon floss pile, a 15-dent reed, the threading, wire insertion and treadling sequence, and cutting the pile. It also describes 'W' and 'U' velvet constructions, with notes on grooved wires and on historical velvets Stack examined.