A single-page article from Modern Priscilla pairing a short appeal about Armenian refugee girls in America with a lesson in Armenian needlepoint lace by Nouvart Tashjian. It explains the Armenian knot worked with a sewing needle and fine thread, with row-by-row directions for five edgings (Figs. 3-7) suited to handkerchiefs, underwear and doilies. Line diagrams show the knotting from right to left and left to right, and small lace swatches illustrate the edgings.

A one-page Modern Priscilla article presenting a bobbin lace edging in two widths, with photographs of both at actual size. The wider lace is worked in No. 35 linen thread for curtains and household use, the finer in No. 100 thread for neckwear and undergarments. Written instructions cover bobbin winding, whole throws, leaves, plaits and picots, and two pricking diagrams with numbered pins and bobbin groups A to D are provided for tracing.

A one-page magazine article describing how to build a small hand-loom at home, with dimensions for the frame, rolling beams, cloth and yarn beams, and brace. It explains the metal disk with 16 holes and a nail that replaces a ratchet wheel, how to attach muslin aprons and warp through a metal beater (16 to 20 dents per inch), and how to make lease sticks and a shuttle. Photos show a bag woven with embroidery weaving, a man's hand-woven silk tie, the loom in use, and a diagram of its parts.

A two-page article from Modern Priscilla by Gwen Keyes with tatting directions for jabots (decorative neck frills) combining tatting with rick-rack and other braids, Battenberg rings, ribbon, velvet and crocheted ball ornaments. Full written instructions are given for Nos. 12-12-36, 12-12-37 and 12-12-38, using clover-leaves, quadrefoils, wheels and ring-and-chain strips. The second page lists the other jabots illustrated (Nos. 12-12-39 to 12-12-45) with the prices of materials and kits, plus tatting shuttles for sale.

The April 1906 issue (Vol. XX, No. 4) of The Modern Priscilla, a Boston women's magazine of needlework and home arts. It has pattern and instruction articles on Teneriffe lace, knitted lace and insertion, crochet (baby sack, sock, doilies, hairpin collar), silk and eyelet embroidery, and shirt-waist, lingerie and infant-wear designs. It also has features on cottages and bungalows, painting studies, household hints, a cooking article on soups, and many period advertisements and subscription-premium pages.

Cover of the April 1912 issue of The Modern Priscilla, a Boston magazine on fancy work and everyday housekeeping. The illustration shows an elderly woman in spectacles and a plaid dress seated beside a young girl, working on white lace or needlework draped over a chair back. The cover carries only the masthead, date, publisher and ten-cent price.

A short magazine article describing the handwoven and tufted handicrafts of Murray Bay (Pointe-a-Pic) on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. It covers the wool blankets spun, dyed and woven by local French-Canadian and Indian women, and the linen bedspreads and coverlets with tufted or darned designs of pine trees, houses, papooses and animals. It also describes the setting, the village shops and the tourist market. One photograph shows a craftswoman at a loom with finished goods, and another shows a patterned spread.

A one-page 1892 magazine article from the Fancy Work section giving netting instructions for a Dutch collar in spool silk and a round doily. It specifies stitch counts, mesh stick sizes, and row sequences including cross-stitch rows, narrowing, and a crocheted edge. It ends with prices for steel netting needles and bone mesh sticks, and is illustrated with photographs of the finished collar and doily.

A one-page magazine article on filet lace, explaining how the hand-made net ground is made and then darned or woven with a design. It describes the point de toile (linen stitch) darning method, which passes the needle over one thread and under one, and shows a filet-net chart and a lettered initial square. It also covers uses such as centrepiece insets, tea-cloth corners, scarf ends and towel initials, and includes prices for outfits and stamped linen.

A two-page article from Modern Priscilla by Anna Nott Shook on weaving with raffia on a cotton warp. It covers choosing and preparing raffia (soaking, splitting, splicing) and gives instructions for porch screens or window shades with a swallow design, pillow covers with a woven fir tree, a utility or school bag with border and handle sequences, and a lamp shade. The article is illustrated with a tree motif, a veranda screen, a bag diagram and a finished bag.

A one-page instructional article on making Teneriffe lace, a wheel-based needle lace worked on a pin cushion. It covers the tools and materials (cushion, pins, needles, mercerized cambric, linen thread, compass), how to draw the circle and set the pins, how to wrap and darn the foundation threads, and how to weave the windmill wheel design. Photographs show wheels, a collar and cuff, a scarf and a centrepiece in Teneriffe lace.