[3]: 6 Using coloured cotton and linen thread, Lough built up her skills largely on hundreds of sets of table-mats, which sold well.
In 1959 her work was shown at the Auckland City Art Gallery in an exhibition of New Zealand craft, along with other weavers such as Ilse van Randow and Zena Abbott.
The introduction to the catalogue noted a ‘healthy trend shown by this exhibition, particularly in the pottery and weaving sections, is an experimentation with local materials’.
[3]: 7 In the early 1960s Lough helped set up a weaving room at the Canterbury Sheltered Workshop for intellectually disabled people, and taught there for eleven years.
She was a founding member of the New Zealand chapter of the World Crafts Council and Patron of the Christchurch Guild of Spinners and Weavers.
[1] The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa holds a series of photographs of Lough and her work taken by John Daley in around 1977.