A 1917 magazine article profiling Mrs. Finley Mast, a hand weaver at Brookside Farm in Valle Crucis, Watauga County, North Carolina. It describes her loom house, her three old looms, the coverlets, rugs and towels she weaves from farm-grown cotton, flax and wool, and traditional pattern names. It also covers her fame after the Knoxville exposition and her blue Sun, Moon and Star rugs for the Blue Mountain Room of the White House under Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Illustrated with photographs of the White House room, the loom house and Mrs. Mast at her loom.

A 1917 magazine article promoting basketry as an accessible craft for amateurs. It surveys natural materials such as cattail leaves, rye straw, willow, poplar splints, pine needles, corn husks and maidenhair fern stems, and compares Native American gathering practice with shop-bought supplies. It describes three illustrated baskets: a plaited cattail handkerchief basket, a rye straw coiled work basket sewed with palmetto, and a wrapped twining catchall basket in the style of Vancouver Island Indians.

A 1917 magazine article from The Art World describing how to make coiled baskets from wire grass sewn with raffia. It covers gathering and dampening the grass, starting a round coil, the over-and-over binding stitch, and splicing in new grass. Instructions are given for a hanging basket, a flower bowl with an open cover, a three-cornered basket with a color scheme, and a tall centerpiece basket. Photographs and a lettered construction diagram (A-D) illustrate the work.