A 1878 magazine article on macramé lace, opening with the etymology of the word 'lace' and its early use as string or band, then tracing macramé as a knotted fringe work of Arabic derivation. It notes the use of linen thread from the Barbour Flax Company and where the lace could be ordered and learned in New York, and cites 'The Queen Lace Book' as the source for the Italian patterns. It closes with a commentary on the over-use of cheap revival crafts. Six halftone illustrations show knots and Italian and American macramé panels.

A first-person travel narrative by the illustrator N. C. Wyeth, published in Scribner's Monthly in 1909. Wyeth stays at the Two Gray Hills trading post in New Mexico, meets a young Navajo herder named Begay, and accompanies him on a two-day drive of a thousand sheep across the desert to a sheep buyer. The text covers herding methods, the landscape, hogans and trading posts, and only briefly mentions Navajo blanket weavers at their looms. A full-page painting of a Navajo herder with his flock is included.

An illustrated 1881 magazine article reviewing the Ladies' Society of Decorative Art of New York and its recent exhibition at the American Art Gallery. It discusses the Society's origins after the Centennial Exposition, its charitable work instructing and employing needlewomen, its salesrooms and admission standards, and its move through several premises. Illustrations show drawn work, imitation old embroidery, Irish crochet lace, a Samuel Colman portière, and the embroidered landscapes of Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., which the writer treats at length.

A two-part devotional poem by Anson G. Chester printed on a single page of Scribner's. It uses the tapestry weaver, who works on the wrong side of the web while following a pattern hung above, as a metaphor for human life lived under divine guidance. It contains no technical weaving information.

A single-page poem, "Weaving the Web," printed in Scribner's Monthly. A young woman keeps putting off weaving her ideal web through morning, noon and evening until she is too tired and the light is gone. The loom and web serve as an allegory for a life of postponed ambitions, and the page has no technical weaving content.