An article by Mary M. Phillips, first president of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, tracing how a Montreal women's art society's exhibitions of 1900 and 1902 led to "Our Handicrafts Shop" (1902) and the Canadian Handicrafts Guild (1905). It surveys the Guild's activities and the crafts it supported: Quebec spinning, weaving and dyeing, homespuns, rag weaving, rug making and home dyeing in Prince Edward Island, Doukhobor embroidery, and Indian basketry, beadwork and quillwork. It also describes the "ceinture flechée" (L'Assomption sash), which is braided rather than woven, and the woven tufted decoration of the Lower St. Lawrence.