First-person account by Mabel H. Kerrison of growing flax on a small plot in northern New Hampshire and preparing the fiber by hand, written after postwar flax shortages. It covers sowing, pulling, rippling, dew-retting (with comparison to retting in Belgium, Russia and Ireland), breaking, scutching or swingling, and hackling, and notes the use of tow. Illustrated with a flax field, a botanical drawing and photographs of the ripple, hand-brake, swingling block and knife, and hackle. It ends with a plea for community flax growing, spinning and weaving, and mentions a towel she wove from her own flax.

A short 1919 article describing hand weaving in a Southern Appalachian mountain settlement. It portrays a young woman who cards, spins, dyes with walnut, hickory and sassafras, and weaves rugs, curtains, upholstery, bedspreads and linsey-woolsey clothing cloth. It mentions bedspreads woven from old Colonial drafts with traditional pattern names such as "Sun, Moon and Stars" and "Cat Tracks and Snail Trails", and handmade netted lace. It credits the settlement school at Hindman, Knott County, Kentucky, with her training.