A short illustrated article surveying the unicorn as a motif in textiles from China, the Islamic world and Europe. It discusses Ming dynasty tapestry and embroidery, Scottish, Portuguese, Italian, French and Swiss pieces, and the Hunt and Lady and the Unicorn tapestries. Seven plates, mostly from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Swiss museums, illustrate tapestry, embroidery, brocade and filet work.

An encyclopedia article defining the loom and explaining its construction and operation, with emphasis on the plain power-loom and its three basic movements: shedding, picking and beating up. It also covers the hand-loom, fancy (dobby-type) loom with pattern chain, box-motion, Jacquard machine, draw-loom, loom harness and reed. Brief historical notes cover Cartwright's power-loom, Jacquard and his predecessors, and the draw-boy. Three figures show a hand-loom, a power-loom end view and a Jacquard mechanism.

An encyclopedia article defining weaving and outlining its basic loom movements (shedding, picking, beating up). It surveys the origins of the art in China, Egypt, India and the Bible, the westward spread of textile manufacture to Flanders, England and America, and the development of the fly-shuttle, power loom, ribbon loom and Jacquard machine. It also covers power-loom stop-motions and shuttle protectors, pile weaving, and brief notes on gauze, terry, glass-cloth, hair-cloth and wire-cloth weaving.