An instructional handbook on basketry by Mary White, first published in 1901 and reprinted through 1902. It covers materials (rattan, raffia, rush), tools, and basic weaving methods such as under-and-over weaving, pairing, triple twist and double weaving. Chapters then give step-by-step projects: mats, simple baskets, covers, handles, work baskets, candy baskets, scrap baskets, bird's nests, oval and melon baskets. Later chapters cover finishing, staining and polishing, chair caning, and Native American twined and coiled basketry techniques. It ends with Neltje Blanchan's chapter on what the basket means to the Indian, and a publisher's advertisement for dyes and materials. Line drawings and plates illustrate the techniques and finished baskets.

An introductory 1902 magazine article on basketry as a modern craft for women, covering its uses, income possibilities, and value in manual training. It describes the main materials (rattan, raffia, flat and braided rush), basic tools, and basic weaves: under-and-over, double, pairing, and triple twist. Step-by-step instructions are given for a knotted raffia work bag, a round mat with open border No. 1, and a small candy basket with rounding sides and open border No. 2, illustrated with line drawings. The article is the first part of a series and ends with "To be continued."

Part II of Mary White's series on rattan basketry in Everybody's Magazine gives materials lists and step-by-step directions for five projects: a doll's tea table with a woven mat top and raffia-wrapped legs, a small basket with a twisted handle, a covered work basket with hinge and ring fastening, a candy basket with a colored band, and a large scrap basket in green and natural rattan. The text covers spoke layouts, weavers, borders, and finishing. Figures show a finished basket, handle construction, a radiating-spoke base, and the interlinked ring fastening.

The concluding part of Mary White's three-part series on basketry for amateurs, published in Everybody's Magazine in 1902. It gives materials lists and step-by-step directions for a raffia-and-rattan bird's nest, an oval Fayal basket, a raffia lamp shade and a raffia rattle. It also includes recipes for dyeing rattan with vegetable dyes (fustic, logwood, indigo) and a terra-cotta stain, and explains the Indian twining stitch and spoke arrangement, with figures courtesy of Prof. Otis T. Mason.

A how-to book by Mary White, sequel to her "How to Make Baskets," giving materials lists and step-by-step instructions for making baskets and related objects, mostly from rattan, raffia, palm leaf and silver top. Chapters cover centres and weaves, flower baskets, baskets for practical use, hanging baskets, square baskets, rush-seating chairs, raffia and palm-leaf hats, raffia and palm-leaf basketry, and natural dyes and unusual materials. It is illustrated with line drawings (numbered figures) and half-tone plates of finished baskets.