A short article by needle lace artist Aurelia Loveman on the traditional lace 'modes' and 'jours', the small decorative fillings used to relieve large open areas in needle lace. It explains the ring, bar, and picot as basic elements and the seed, chain, and star arrangements for combining them, with line drawings of a chain of rings, rings on festoons, and picoted bars with chained rings. It closes with a quotation from Marian Powys on lace fillings, an author biography, and a bibliography of Carlier, Lovesey, and Powys.

A two-page historical essay on the rise and decline of handmade lace, written for the Needle Arts journal. It discusses definitions of lace, the difference between needle lace and bobbin lace, why the baroque and rococo laces of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries cannot be reproduced, and the competition from machine-made lace. It also covers punto in aria, the Venice and France rivalry, Point de Gaze, the early twentieth-century Ars-Aemilia revival, and the current state of lacemaking. Illustrated with photographs of Alencon of Burano, Point de Gaze, and Rose Point de Venise.

First-person article by lace artist Aurelia Loveman describing how she designed and worked a needle lace fan leaf, "Ortolan Pie," for a set of painted ivory fan sticks. She traces the design of a crouching fire bird adapted from a Utamaro bird book, and explains the stitches used: knotted double buttonhole, cloth stitch, Alen\u00e7on mesh, the "Les Venises" band, and a festoon-stitch ground with a running-stitch armature that she claims as her own invention. Illustrated with photographs of the finished lace and details; includes a short bibliography and author note.

A condensed version of a 1985 lecture to the North Downs Lacemakers of Surrey, England, in which Aurelia Loveman argues that contemporary lace need not be large to count as mainstream art. She holds that lace appeals chiefly to the tactile sense, which favors small, intricate work rich in texture over the "think big" approach. She also discusses color and iridescence, especially in needle lace, using her needle lace fan "Espalier" as an example. The article ends with a short author biography and a note on the International Old Lacers.