A short illustrated newspaper article from 1866 describing how pillow lace is made in Bedfordshire and other southern English counties. It explains the pillow, the parchment pattern, pins and decorated bobbins weighted with glass beads, and how the worker moves the bobbins by hand. It also covers the slow pace of the work, the low and falling wages, child labor, and the expected decline of the craft against cheap imitation lace. An engraving shows a lace worker at her pillow.

A short poem, "Weave, brothers, weave!", printed in the Penny Illustrated Paper in 1867. It addresses weavers at the loom and urges them to work and sing while producing flowers, sunset colors, and fine silk. The poem uses weaving imagery (shuttle, warp, thread, seam) and contains no technical weaving instruction.