A monthly archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for October 1999, reproducing the messages with their mail headers. The sampled threads cover the debate over whether textiles are art or science and the pursuit of technical excellence, judging and juror practice at shows, standards committees and pricing of handwoven goods, and a lecture tour by Peruvian weaver Nilda Callañaupa. Other threads cover summer and winter, fine linen on a table loom, reed dents per inch, tracking and yarn twist, nylon, flat steel and Texsolv heddles, threading a drawloom, the Peter Collingwood retrospective at The Textile Museum, and loom-for-sale and website announcements. There are no weaving drafts; the content is conversational text.