Part II of an article by Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood on needlework in the American colonies, focused on the eighteenth century. It covers crewel work on homespun cotton and linen, a chain-stitch bedspread, petit point chair seats, quilted garments and coverlets, silk-embroidered waistcoats and gowns, and needlework and memorial pictures, including Washington memorials. It closes with remarks on dating pieces by design history. Illustrated with photographs of a bed valance, bedspread, chair seats, gown front, a child's 1765 embroidery, and a memorial picture.

Part One of an article on American colonial needlework from the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, drawing on probate records and inventories from the 17th and early 18th centuries. It discusses turkey work, crewel embroidery, petit point (tent stitch), bed hangings, samplers, stumpwork pictures and Hungarian point chair seats. Illustrated with plates of embroidered bedspreads, bed hangings, a sampler, Mary Bulman's 1745 hangings from Old York Jail and a Wethersfield chair seat.