A 1913 wholesale merchandise catalogue from Gordon Mackay & Company, Toronto, offering laces, embroideries and related dry goods to merchants. Nearly every page is a grid of photographed swatches (shown half size) with pattern numbers, widths and per-yard or per-dozen-yard prices. It covers Valenciennes, Torchon, Cluny, Maltese, linen, Plauen guipure and Spanish net laces, cambric and nainsook embroideries, flouncings, allovers, and box-lot assortments. The final sections cover veilings, gloves, bibs, sweater coats, ribbons, ostrich feathers, motor scarfs and neckwear.

A 1901 instruction manual for making Cluny and Torchon bobbin lace by Mary Eva Woodward. It opens with general directions on bobbin handling, stitches (point, half point, point grille, point d'esprit, point matte), cords and their crossings, and grounds such as Point de Dieppe, Point de Tulle and Brussels Point. The bulk is a series of numbered patterns (edges, insertions and borders in Cluny, Torchon, Point Vierge and point d'esprit), each with bobbin count, thread size, a numbered pin pricking diagram, a photograph of the finished lace, and pair-by-pair working instructions. It ends with directions for turning corners.