A five-page article from The Century (January 1882) reviewing the machinery and appliances shown at the 1881 Atlanta Cotton Exposition, with attention to what would benefit the cotton planter. It describes a seed-dropping cotton planter, horse-drawn sprinklers and dust-blowers for killing insects, seed-cotton cleaners, saw-gins and a roller-gin with steel combs, a gin-saw sharpener, a continuous self-packing baling press, and a proposal to feed a gin directly onto a carding machine. The focus is on cotton growing, ginning and baling rather than spinning or weaving.

A 1891 magazine article by Clare de Graffenried on the poor white "crackers" of Georgia and the Southern cotton mills where they work. It describes their homes, dress, diet, habits, dialect, religion, and schooling, and the labor of women and children in the mills while the men stay idle. The text is illustrated with sketches by Kemble, including scenes of cracker homes, mill women, and the mill interior. It is a social commentary of its time and has no technical weaving content.

An illustrated 1882 magazine article on the revival of Burano needle lace, the lace-making industry of an island in the Venetian lagoon. It surveys the lagoon islands, the early history of Venetian lace and the French rivalry under Colbert, and the 1872 founding of a lace school by Countess Adriana Marcello and Princess Giovanelli Chigi under Queen Margaret. It includes the Countess's letter on the school's organization into seven work sections and the lace types made there. Illustrated with views of Burano, portraits, and photographs of Burano point, Rose Point, Brussels, raised leaf and English point laces.

A February 1882 magazine article reflecting on the 1881 International Cotton Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, directed by H. I. Kimball. It argues the fair is neither truly international nor chiefly about cotton, but a showcase of new processes, machinery for ginning, baling, spinning and weaving, and cotton-seed treatment, and also of Southern minerals and resources. Much of the text discusses post-Civil War social and economic change in the South: attitudes toward slavery (quoting Senator Hammond), Black labor, planter credit and commission merchants, small-farm cotton growing, roller versus saw gins, cotton grading, and railway growth.

A short 1882 magazine article on reviving silk culture in the United States. It describes a newly introduced reeling machine with a heated boiler, glass guides and a reel, which unwinds filaments from cocoons by hand or steam power. It also outlines silkworm rearing as a low-capital rural occupation for women and children, covering the roughly 35-day rearing period, mulberry feed, and egg and cocoon sales.