April 1909 issue of Posselt's Textile Journal, a US monthly trade magazine for the textile industries. It covers fabric structure and harness work (75-degree steep twills, pile fabrics such as filling velvet), worsted and melton suiting specifications with weave diagrams, a treatise on the Knowles fancy worsted loom, narrow-ware loom shuttle mechanism, and Jacquard dress goods. Other articles deal with cotton spinning (ring frame, fly frames), warp sizing, silk finishing, artificial wools and shoddy, wool scouring, seamless knitting machinery, bleaching and dyeing artificial silks, chemical testing, and a dictionary of technical terms and weaves. The issue also contains many machinery and yarn advertisements, a buyers' index, mill news, and a chart explanation for 'Textile Designing Simplified'.