A 1905 magazine article by Clifton Johnson describing rural life among Black cotton farmers near Memphis, Tennessee. It covers cotton planting and picking, rents and debt, cabins and roads, recollections of an elderly man and his wife about the 1833 meteor shower and the Civil War, a debating society, and barbecues. It is illustrated with the author's photographs of cabins, fieldwork, a well, and two women at a spinning wheel; it has no weaving content beyond that image.

A 1902 magazine article by Clifton Johnson describing a visit to South Carolina in early October to observe the cotton harvest. It covers cotton patches of various sizes, how pickers gather cotton in bags and blankets, and the daily life of Black farm families, including rice pounding, peanut growing and recollections of slavery. It is illustrated with photographs of cotton picking, plantation quarters, a cart, a well and a rice mill.

A 1904 magazine article by Leon Vandervort describing country life on the plantations of the Mississippi cotton belt, from the antebellum era through the postwar period. It covers plantation houses, climate adaptations, recreations, the effects of the Civil War and the shift to tenant farming, and a modern diversified farm near Birmingham as a model for the future. It is illustrated with six photographs of plantation scenes; it does not discuss textile production or weaving.

A 1901 magazine article by George Wharton James surveying Native American basketry of Nevada, the Southwest, California, and the Pacific coast. It describes the cultural and ceremonial roles of baskets and the materials, coiling and twining techniques, border stitches, colors, and symbolic designs of the Paiute, Washoe, Hopi, Apache, Pima, Pomo, Yokut, Aleut and other peoples. It is illustrated with halftone photographs of baskets and weavers, including Dat-so-la-lee, Kuchyeampsi and Ramona.

A 1902 magazine article by George Wharton James on weaving among Southwestern Native Americans, chiefly the Navaho, with notes on the Pueblo peoples (Hopi, Zuni), Mexican weavers and the Thlinket of Alaska. It covers the vertical loom and its tools, the preparation of wool, the four grades of Navaho blankets including Germantown yarn, native dyes and bayeta cloth, and the sources of designs. It also describes Hopi cotton bridal garments and ceremonial kilts, and heddle-frame weaving of sashes and belts. Illustrated with photographs of weavers and blankets.

A short 1912 magazine article urging American farmers to take up sheep raising as a profitable sideline. It covers the value of well-bred stock, sheep as weed eaters and soil fertilizers, selecting pure-bred sires, feeding lambs in creeps, and dipping twice a year against ticks, lice and scab. Wool is mentioned only briefly, as a fleece that nearly pays for the animal's keep.

A 1904 magazine article on the history and practice of pedigree sheep breeding. It traces sheep in ancient and biblical times, the Spanish origin and spread of the merino across Europe, and why Britain rejected the breed. It then covers Robert Bakewell's improvement of mutton sheep and the creation of British breeds such as Southdown, Shropshire and Oxford Down. Illustrations show a pasture and rams of several breeds.