A short alphabetically organized primer for beginning handweavers, written as informal lessons from a teacher to a friend. It covers choosing and assembling a four-harness balanced loom, warping on a reel, calculating warp and yardage for linen towels, dressing the loom, and weaving tabby and plain twill. Later sections touch on reading drafts, cloth analysis, pattern weaving with a tabby (rose path, Mock Goblin), lace and leno, mending, novelty yarns, overshot, Persian and Rya knots, Roedlakan, soumak, tapestry, draperies, and exhibiting. Drafts appear on three pages: tabby and twill samplers, five basic draws, and a rose path.

A short handweaving folder by Maria Mundal describing rug and decorative-fabric techniques, written for inexperienced weavers. It gives brief verbal instructions for wattling/twining, soumak, Sehna (Persian), Ghiordes (Turkish) and Spanish knots, rya, floss, tufting (Canadian loop), kelim, aakled, rølakan and rag rugs. One page of line drawings shows the warp-thread paths of several of the knots and stitches. Includes notes on historical origins, Scandinavian use, yarns and finishing.