Book No. 3 of Barbour's Prize Needle-Work Series, issued in 1894 by the Barbour Brothers Company to promote Barbour's Irish flax threads. It reports the prize awards from Book No. 2 and then gives prize-winning patterns contributed by readers in six departments. These cover knitted and crocheted lace, tatting, mitts, slippers, a tennis belt, doilies and tidies, macramé, bobbin lace with pillow and ground instructions, darned net, cross-stitch, outline embroidery and Old English point. Patterns are written in abbreviated stitch notation and illustrated with photographs and a few pinning diagrams. It ends with notes on washing embroidery and advertisements for Barbour's threads.

Book No. 1 of Barbour's Prize Needle-Work Series, a trade booklet from the Barbour Brothers Company promoting Irish flax threads. It gives instructions for crochet, knotted and macramé work, knitting, netting and darned net, tatting, and embroidery, including lace edgings, insertions, table-mats, and wheels. Row-by-row patterns are illustrated with photographs and line drawings. It also has a glossary of knitting and crochet abbreviations, a prize competition notice, and thread advertisements.