A short illustrated article on Byzantine silk textiles, surveying surviving fragments that were mostly used as shrouds of saints or relic wrappings. It discusses their Sassanian Persian design character, including medallion layouts, paired confronted animals and all-over repeating patterns, and examines pieces such as the Mantle of St. Fridolin, the Sancta Sanctorum silk, the shroud of Charlemagne, the Dusseldorf lion silk and the Aix-la-Chapelle charioteer silk. It also traces how silk weaving and its designs spread from Byzantium to Sicily, Italy and France.

Article by the Marquis de Valverde, translated by Emilio M. Amores, introducing an exhibition of tapestries and carpets from the Royal Tapestry Factory of Madrid, lent by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and shown by the Hispanic Society of America. It traces the factory's history from its founding under Philip V in 1720 by the Flemish master Jacob Vandergoten, through the Vandergoten and Stuyk directorships, the Goya cartoons, decline during the French invasion, and revival under Alfonso XII and XIII. It also notes that the factory kept traditional weaving, yarns and dyes. Illustrated with tapestries from the Don Quixote series, Goya designs, a Flemish-style tapestry and a tapestry-point carpet.